Facing 30 Years Prosecutors Turn Down Internet Activist Aaron Swartz's Plea Deal 2 Days Before His Suicide

• Internet activist Swartz, 26, committed suicide on January 11 at his Brooklyn home as he faced 30 years in jail



• Prosecutors turned down Swartz's lawyer over plea deal on January 9



• U.S. attorneys file to dismiss case in court today after Swartz's death



• Internet activist faced decades in prison over hacking charges for allegedly downloading more than four million academic journals



• Hundreds of academics post copyright-protected journals for free in tribute to Swartz



• Hacker group Anonymous crash MIT website over prosecution of Swartz, described as a 'grotesque miscarriage of justice'

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F2C2012: Aaron Swartz keynote - "How we stopped SOPA"

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