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2025-06-29 09:17:04 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 1ECC8102F51DC22A50E5C77F2B5BA947420C7400801108031CD194617A369A39
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Aaron Swartz died 12 years ago, not 22. Furthermore, his charges were criminal, not civil; so charged by federal prosecutors and not JSTOR. According to Swartz's attorney Marty Weinberg, JSTOR even supported a plea deal that would have given Swartz no jail time. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/technology/aaron-swartz-internet-activist-dies-at-26.html https://web.archive.org/web/20130117062007/http://bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/01/15/humanity-deficit/bj8oThPDwzgxBSHQt3tyKI/story.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Swartz
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