Director: Brian Knappenberger

Writer: Brian Knappenberger

Keywords: Documentary, Internet, Biography

Documentary examines the controversial life and career of Internet activist Aaron Swartz.

ABSTRACT
Standout programmer-cum-Internet evangelist Aaron Swartz, co-inventor of the RSS protocol and co-founder of massively popular online community Reddit with a passion for activism, found himself thrust into a nightmarish legal battle towards the end of his life beginning with his 2011 breaking-and-entering arrest after downloading articles from closed-access digital library JSTOR and ending with his 2013 suicide by hanging. The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz examines Swartz's troubling ordeal from a sympathetic point of view, portraying legal efforts against him as a repressive smear campaign borne out of his belief in free ("as in freedom") information and an open Internet.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Tim Berners-Lee	Computer Programmer	8-Jun-1955		Inventor of the World Wide Web
Cory Doctorow	Blogger	17-Jul-1971		Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
Lawrence Lessig	Legal Scholar	3-Jun-1961		Constitutional and internet law
Aaron Swartz	Computer Programmer	8-Nov-1986	11-Jan-2013	Co-Inventor of RSS
Ron Wyden	Politician	3-May-1949		US Senator from Oregon

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