Aaron Swartz, who was 24 during the time and now a former Harvard University student, had been charged with hacking into Massachusetts Institute of Technology computers. Swartz had stole more than 4 million scholarly articles, book reviews, and other content from an academic database. The federal indictment alleges that Swartz broke into a restricted computer wiring closet in an MIT basement to access the school’s network without permission. He then continued to allegedly download articles from JSTOR, a nonprofit database for scholarly journals. Swartz was charged with wire fraud, computer fraud, unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer and recklessly damaging a protected computer. It’s reported that when MIT and JSTOR noticed
