The majority of the wealth of human knowledge is owned by a few publishing companies that hoard information and make billions off licensing fees, although most scholarly articles and journals are paid for by taxpayers through government grants. Aaron sought to change this.
Leahy’s amendment suggests an undeniable impression that fairness under the law is sacrificable to grander notions, such as “national security” and “corporate protection.”
A man’s spirit broke on Jan.11, 2013. Under unrelenting pressure from federal prosecutors and facing 35 years in prison, Aaron Swartz, 26, co-founder of Demand Progress and a member of the developing team for the RSS feed, Creative Commons and Infogrami -- who at the time was severely and chronically depressed -- killed
MIT says an internal review shows the school acted appropriately in the case of Swartz.
An internal investigation by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is billed by the school as evidence the school acted appropriately in the case of Aaron Swartz, but supporters of the late freedom-of-information
