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In his too-short life, Aaron Swartz reshaped the Internet and
questioned our assumptions about intellectual property. His tragic
suicide in 2013 at the age of 26 after being aggressively
prosecuted for copyright infringement shocked the world. Here, for
the first time in print, is revealed the quintessential Aaron
Swartz: besides being a technical genius and a passionate activist,
he was also an insightful, compelling and cutting essayist. He
wrote thoughtfully and humorously about intellectual property,
copyright and the architecture of the Internet.
In January 2013, Aaron Swartz, under arrest and threatened with
thirty-five years of imprisonment for downloading material from the
JSTOR database, committed suicide. He was twenty-six years old. But
in that time he had changed the world we live in: reshaping the
Internet, questioning our assumptions about intellectual property,
and creating some of the tools we use in our daily online lives.
Besides being a technical genius and a passionate activist, he was
also an insightful, compelling, and cutting critic of the politics
of the Web. In this collection of his writings that spans over a
decade he shows his passion for and in-depth knowledge of
intellectual property, copyright, and the architecture of the
Internet. The Boy Who Could Change the World contains the life's
work of one of the most original minds of our time.
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