To prosecutors, the 26-year-old Swartz was a thief whose aims to make information available didn't excuse the illegal acts he was charged with: breaking into a wiring closet at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and tapping into its computer network to download millions of paid-access scholarly articles, which he planned to share publicly.
So it is with some sense of guilt that I admit to being a closet fan of Blind Date--the raunchy comedy on the WB Network featuring men and women on a first date.