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Aaron Swartz

Nacimiento : 1986-11-08, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Muerte : 2011-01-11

Historia

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".

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Killswitch

Himself

This Internet is under attack. Communications, culture, free speech, innovation, and democracy are all up for grabs. Will the Internet be dominated by a few powerful interests? Or will citizens rise up to protect it?

La historia de Aaron Swartz. El chico de Internet

Self

Cuando era adolescente, Aaron Swartz era un prodigio de la programación informática con una sed insaciable de conocimiento. Después de emerger como un pionero del activismo en Internet, la educación y la política, fue acusado de varios cargos federales en 2011 y 2012, lo que desencadenó una compleja cadena de acontecimientos que dejaron a las oscilaciones de la comunidad de Internet. Poco después, a la edad de 26, Swartz fue encontrado muerto de un aparente suicidio en su apartamento de Brooklyn.

Steal This Film II

Himself

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. We know who the victors are. Why then say any more?

Steal This Film

Himself

Steal This Film focuses on Pirate Bay founders Gottfrid Svartholm, Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde, prominent members of the Swedish filesharing community. The makers claimed that 'Old Media' documentary crews couldn't understand the internet culture that filesharers took part in, and that they saw peer-to-peer organization as a threat to their livelihoods. Because of that, they were determined to accurately represent the filesharing community from within. Notably, Steal This Film was released and distributed, free of charge, through the same filesharing networks that the film documents.

Aardvark'd: 12 Weeks with Geeks

Himself

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. Boondoggle Films presents a journey through the world of software development from the perspective of a unique upstart, four quirky interns, and the world of The Geek.