RIP: Aaron H. Swartz (November 8, 1986 – January 11, 2013)

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Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا‎

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Jan 12, 2013, 5:34:50 PM1/12/13
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On January 6, 2011, Swartz was arrested in connection with systematic downloading of academic journal articles from JSTOR, which became the subject of a federal investigation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

RIP, Aaron Swartz
Cory Doctorow at 4:53 am Sat, Jan 12
http://boingboing.net/2013/01/12/rip-aaron-swartz.html

Lessig Blog, v2
Prosecutor as bully
http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/40347463044/prosecutor-as-bully

F2C2012: Aaron Swartz keynote - "How we stopped SOPA"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Fgh2dFngFsg#!



Anivar Aravind

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Jan 13, 2013, 9:48:33 PM1/13/13
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Academics, please put your PDFs online in tribute to @aaronsw. Use #pdftribute. This is happening Check out - http://pdftribute.net/ ; It'll soon be a huge collection of pdf links to academic articles . share widely


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