The Criminal Charges Against Aaron Swartz (Part 1: The Law)
You know what Aaron's sin was?  Greed.<p>If he'd set this <i>same thing</i> up so that it would download JSTOR over the course of, say, two years, nobody would ever have been the wiser, we'd actually have that data today since it's actually <i>been</i> two years, and he'd still be alive.<p>But he had to have all the data NOW.  I get it, I really do.  He lost track of the goal in the excitement of the pursuit.