Aaron Swartz, 26, took his life in January 2013 after a drawn-out legal battle that began in 2011. He was arrested by police for breaking and entering at MIT and downloading a large number of academic files from JSTOR. Among his accomplishments were the development of the web feed format RSS, the organization Creative Commons, and the social news site Reddit. Swartz was a well-known internet activist, hacker and all-around genius, Swartz died in 2013 at age 26.”]
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