Reddit co-founder kills himself

Aaron Swartz, co-founder of Reddit and co-author of XML 1.0 is dead. He committed suicide after being harassed by the government for scraping a website that hosts public domain articles. The website did not press civil charges, but this did not stop the government from pursuing criminal ones.

http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N61/swartz.html

I don't know why he didn't just serve the sentence. It would have made him an internet martyr, and it's not like the Federal prison camp he would have been sent to would have been ``hard time.'' These places have swimming pools, tennis courts, clean food, and geriatric money launderers unlikely to rape you.