Aaron Swartz was a computer programmer associated with the development of RSS web feed format  and Reddit. Aaron was known for being against SOPA. On January 6 of 2011, Swartz was arrested and charged for downloading academic journals from Jstor. Later on he was charged with 35 years in prison and a million dollars in fine because he was prosecuted federally and charged with two counts of wire fraud and 11 violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Sharing and download things from others shouldn’t be a problem! If there’s a way to get things off the internet then people shouldn’t be charged for harshly like Swatz was reason being why twoo days after Aaron committed suicide. The charges given to Swatz based on US laws are absolutely harsh. 35 years in prison and such a crazy amount of fines is too much for a person to handle. The laws should treat people differently and realize that they are humans and some things should be charged differently than others.

Yang, W. (2013, February 8). The Life and Afterlife of Aaron Swartz. New York Magazine. Retrieved from Publisher’s homepage URL http://nymag.com/news/features/aaron-swartz-2013-2/

Wikipedia:Aaron Swatz. (2013, November 1). Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz