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The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (20-Jan-2014)
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 |
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| Tim Berners-Lee |
Computer Programmer |
8-Jun-1955 |
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Inventor of the World Wide Web |
| Cory Doctorow |
Blogger |
17-Jul-1971 |
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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom |
| Lawrence Lessig |
Legal Scholar |
3-Jun-1961 |
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Constitutional and internet law |
| Aaron Swartz |
Computer Programmer |
8-Nov-1986 |
11-Jan-2013 |
Co-Inventor of RSS |
| Ron Wyden |
Politician |
3-May-1949 |
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US Senator from Oregon |
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