The prosecution, in my estimation of Aaron Swartz, was about sending a particular, laserlike message to a group of people that the Obama administration sees as politically threatening, and that is, essentially, the hacker, the information, and the democracy activist community, and the message that the Obama administration wanted to send to that particular community was, in my estimation, "We know you have the ability to make trouble for the establishment, and so we are going to try to make an example out of Aaron Swartz to scare as many of you as possible into not making that trouble."