Congressmen Demand 7 Answers From Aaron Swartz's Prosecutors

1: What factors influenced the decision to prosecute Mr. Swartz for the crimes alleged in the indictment, including the decisions regarding what crimes to charge and the filing of the superseding indictment?


2: Was Mr. Swartz's opposition to SOPA or his association with any advocacy groups considered?


3: What specific plea offers were made to Mr. Swartz, and what factors influenced the decisions by prosecutors regarding plea offers made to Mr. Swartz?


4: How did the criminal charges, penalties sought, and plea offers in this case compare to those of other cases that have been prosecuted or considered for prosecution under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act?


5: Did the federal investigation of Mr. Swartz reveal evidence that he had committed other hacking violations?


6: What factors influenced the Department's decisions regarding sentencing proposals?


7: Why was a superseding indictment necessary?

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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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Huffington Post - Anonymous Hacks MIT, U.S. Department Of Justice In Aaron Swartz Tribute

Internet activists with the group Anonymous claimed credit for hacking the Massachusetts Institute of Technology website Sunday, in memoriam of the Aaron Swartz, the Reddit co-founder who recently committed suicide.


Reddit users reported the entire mit.edu domain was down, including their school email service. The backup emergency site, emergency.mit.net, was reportedly down too. MIT's website was restored Sunday evening, as Anonymous admitted they were behind the attack.


"Whether or not the government contributed to his suicide, the government's prosecution of Swartz was a grotesque miscarriage of justice, a distorted and perverse shadow of the justice that Aaron died fighting for — freeing the publicly-funded scientific literature from a publishing system that makes it inaccessible to most of those who paid for it — enabling the collective betterment of the world through the facilitation of sharing — an ideal that we should all support," Anonymous' said in a statement, which replaced MIT's website.

Full Article on Huffington Post