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'''Aaron H. Swartz''' (1986 – 2013) was a Internet entrepreneur, programmer, civil activist, and co-creator of [[Reddit]]<ref>http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2001Apr/0062.html</ref>. Swartz was notable for his achievements with the RSS Standard, and the creation of widely used web framework, web.py. He also founded the organization, Demand Progress, notable for it's work against SOPA and other copyright organizations. On January 6, 2013, Swartz was arrested in connection with the illegal downloading and sharing of hundreds of thousands of academic documents from JSTOR, to protest the highly exclusive nature of the academic world. Swartz had opposed the practice of compensating big businesses and corporations for the works, instead of the authors, through the fees exacted on it's users, mostly poorer academics. On January 11, it was found that Mr. Swartz had hung himself in his apartment. <ref>http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57563656/co-founder-of-reddit-aaron-swartz-found-dead/</ref>
 
'''Aaron H. Swartz''' (1986 – 2013) was a Internet entrepreneur, programmer, civil activist, and co-creator of [[Reddit]]<ref>http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-rdfcore-wg/2001Apr/0062.html</ref>. Swartz was notable for his achievements with the RSS Standard, and the creation of widely used web framework, web.py. He also founded the organization, Demand Progress, notable for it's work against SOPA and other copyright organizations. On January 6, 2013, Swartz was arrested in connection with the illegal downloading and sharing of hundreds of thousands of academic documents from JSTOR, to protest the highly exclusive nature of the academic world. Swartz had opposed the practice of compensating big businesses and corporations for the works, instead of the authors, through the fees exacted on it's users, mostly poorer academics. On January 11, it was found that Mr. Swartz had hung himself in his apartment. <ref>http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57563656/co-founder-of-reddit-aaron-swartz-found-dead/</ref>
  

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