EFF: Join Us For the Sixth Annual Aaron Swartz Day This Weekend at The Internet Archive
Join Us For the Sixth Annual Aaron Swartz Day This Weekend at The Internet Archive Join EFF and others on November 10 and 11 to celebrate the sixth annual Aaron Swartz Day , with a weekend of lectures, a virtual reality fair and a hackathon. This weekend we’ll join our friends at the Internet Archive in celebrating Aaron’s work as activist, programmer, entrepreneur, and political organizer. Aaron’s life was cut short in 2013, after he was charged under the notoriously draconian Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for systematically downloading academic journal articles from the online database JSTOR. Despite the fact that the CFAA was originally enacted to stop malicious computer break-ins, federal prosecutors have for years stretched the law beyond its original intent, instead pushing for heavy penalties for any behavior they don’t like that involves a computer. This was the case for Aaron, who was charged with eleven counts under the CFAA. Facing decades in prison, Aaron took his own...