Aaron Swartz has committed suicide on January 11, 2013 in New York City. The EFF in a blog post states: “Aaron did more than almost anyone to make the Internet a thriving ecosystem for open knowledge” Swartz downloaded 20 million pages of legal documents from PACER, the Public Access to Court Electronic Records system. Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the World Wide Web, wrote on Twitter: “We have lost a wise elder. Hackers for right, we are one down. Let us weep”
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2013/01/rip-aaron-swartz-legendary-internet.html