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- On January 6, 2011, Swartz was arrested by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) police on state breaking-and-entering charges, after connecting a computer to the MIT network in an unmarked and unlocked closet and setting it to download academic journal articles systematically from JSTOR using a guest user account issued to him by MIT. Federal prosecutors, led by Carmen Ortiz, later charged him with two counts of wire fraud and eleven violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act,...
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In United States of America v. Aaron Swartz, Aaron Swartz, an American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist, was prosecuted for multiple violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (CFAA), after downloading academic journal articles through the MIT computer network from a source for which he had an ...
Mar 3, 2013 · UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. AARON SWARTZ, Defendant. Description of Offense Charged: 18 USC 1343 Wire Fraud. 18 USC 1030(a)(4) Computer Fraud
- Larissa Macfarquhar
Sep 10, 2023 · I. The Facts of the Swartz Case. The facts here are drawn principally from the superseding indictment against Swartz and the blog post made by Alex Stamos, the expert witness that Aaron Swartz planned to use in his defense.
Jan 14, 2013 · In our age, armed with laws passed in the nineteen-eighties and meant for serious criminals, the federal prosecutor Carmen Ortiz approved a felony indictment that originally demanded up to...
Jul 30, 2013 · People around the world now know that the person responsible was Aaron Swartz, that the United States government opted to prosecute Mr. Swartz, and that the criminal case came to an end with Mr. Swartz’s tragic suicide in January 2013.
On July 30, 2013, JSTOR released 300 partially redacted documents used as incriminating evidence against Swartz, originally sent to the United States Attorney's Office in response to subpoenas in the case United States v. Aaron Swartz. [89]
Within a few days of returning to the United States, Swartz purchased a new laptop, logged into the MIT computer network, and began the liberation of JSTOR.
