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

We know it was murder. Aaron had the least interest on killing himself. He even had goals written down to accomplish before he died. People like him, I would have been a bodyguard for, even though he did shitty code.

We all know he uncovered something from JSTOR, that we all know, that he had to be silenced for. You do not read People getting arrested for downloading and publishing ACM Digital Library journals and articles, or even Oxford University Press.