But the rules do leave some wiggle room for toy makers, Swartz points out.
Family and friends say Swartz killed himself after he was hounded by federal prosecutors.
With legal concerns looming, Ms. Stinebrickner-Kauffman and Mr. Swartz went about their daily routines.
That pressure weighed on Mr. Swartz, who friends said had long suffered bouts of depression.
Congress now has an opportunity to truly decide the legacy of Aaron Swartz.
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Swartz, 26, was facing federal computer fraud charges and could have served 35 years in prison.
Both Swartz and Anonymous have been stark proponents of open access to information and open-source programming.
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It seems that the government has inadvertently breathed new life into the causes that Swartz championed.
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Swartz hung himself in his apartment in Brooklyn on Friday on the anniversary of his arrest.
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Larry Swartz, a 72-year-old retired tool-and-die machine repairman, had severe PAD, known as critical limb ischemia.
The board paid Mr Swartz a handsome severance package in return for leaving the firm.
Other jurors, however, found Mr Swartz's testimony credible, and were reluctant to press for guilty verdicts.
Mr Swartz had intended to plead not guilty to charges of computer fraud and wire fraud.
Ortiz, the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, quietly dropped the charges against Swartz on Monday.
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Or Swartz, an unabashed idealist committed to Internet freedom, may have suicided as a matter of principle.
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An Internet visionary, Swartz was one of the founders and developers of the social media site Reddit.
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The organization said it had told prosecutors that it wasn't interested in pursuing charges against Mr. Swartz.
The January suicide of 26-year-old Aaron Swartz made me wonder if we have lost our way.
It declined to pursue its own action against Swartz and asked the government to drop its case.
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Had Swartz chosen to plead not guilty, the offer of six months in jail would have evaporated.
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Technology activist Cory Doctorow met Swartz when he was 14 or 15, Doctorow said on his blog.
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Mr Swartz, who was 26, was facing hacking charges and is believed to have taken his own life.
The statement referred to the death of Mr Swartz, an internet activist who apparently killed himself in January.
Aaron Swartz was many things - a brilliant young technologist, an entrepreneur, and an advocate for internet freedom.
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While those briefs were being submitted and argued, Swartz acted on his own strategy to conclude his case.
But MIT did not go along, according to Lawrence Lessig, a Harvard professor whom Swartz confided in.
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Neither of these cases, of course, had outcomes remotely on a par with the tragedy of Aaron Swartz.
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One of Swartz's desires was to make public information truly public -- that is, free and easily available.
Swartz aimed to make the point that disseminating the information cost nothing, which he did by doing so.
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