Aaron Schwartz, who developed a new version of RSS feeds at age 14 and later launched Creative Commons and was vital in bringing Reddit to prominence, fought hard to create open access for everyone on the internet to those documents that he thought no one had a right to charge for access. One example is JSTOR, which charges fees for viewing articles that it did not write and not sharing that profit with the original authors. He was in the middle of a trial in which, if convicted, he could have faced up to 35 years in prison and a $1 million fine. He will be sorely missed, but his passing will no doubt continue the fight for a more open internet.
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