Aaron Swartz

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Aaron Hillel Swartz (November 8, 1986 – January 11, 2013) was an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, writer, political organizer and Internet hacktivist who was involved in the development of the web feedformat RSS and the Markdown publishing format, the organization Creative Commons, the website framework web.py and the social news site, Reddit, in which he became a partner after its merger with his company, Infogami. He committed suicide while under federal indictment for data-theft, a prosecution that was characterized by his family as being "the product of a criminal-justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach".

Most Popular Aaron Swartz Trailers

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The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz Trailer (2014)

27 June 2014

Programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz achieved groundbreaking work in social justice and political organizing.

Steal This Film Trailer (2006)

21 August 2006

Steal This Film focuses on Pirate Bay founders Gottfrid Svartholm, Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde, prominent members of the Swedish filesharing community.

Steal This Film II Trailer (2007)

28 December 2007

These are strange times indeed. While they continue to command so much attention in the mainstream media, the 'battles' between old and new modes of distribution, between the pirate and the institution of copyright, seem to many of us already lost and won.

Aardvark'd: 12 Weeks with Geeks Trailer (2005)

01 December 2005

Four interns are brought into Manhattan and given 12 weeks to design, develop, debug and ship a program that will change the way computer geeks around the world fix their friends' computers.

Killswitch Trailer (2015)

01 March 2015

This Internet is under attack. Communications, culture, free speech, innovation, and democracy are all up for grabs.

The Death of Reddit's Creator Trailer (2024)

22 November 2024

Today we look into the tragic story of Reddit Secret Co-Founder Aaron Swartz, who was instrumental in creating the internet and is the closest thing we have to a human love letter for the World Wide Web.