Symons wisely refused that request, and instead built her own social network, hosted on a server in her closet.

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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.

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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.

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Eventually, Swartz broke into a closet in the basement of building at MIT and connected his computer directly to the network.

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