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In the early days of Reddit, Swartz's Infogami and Reddit merged; the merger agreement made Swartz an equal partner in the merged company.

JSTOR's fees limited access to academic work produced at American colleges and universities.

Swartz also focused on sociology, civic awareness and activism.

against the Stop Online Piracy Act

On January 6, 2011, Swartz was arrested by federal authorities in connection with systematic downloading of academic journal articles from JSTOR.[7][8] Swartz opposed JSTOR's practice of compensating publishers, rather than authors, out of the fees it charges for access to articles.

In 2010 he joined the Harvard University Center for Ethics.

At age 13, he won the ArsDigita Prize, a competition for young people who create "useful, educational, and collaborative" non-commercial websites.

By age 14, Swartz was a member of the working group that authored the RSS 1.0 web syndication specification

he agitated without cease—or compensation—for the free-culture movement.

Around 2006, Swartz acquired the Library of Congress's complete bibliographic dataset: the library charged fees to access this, but as a government document, it was not copyright-protected within the USA. By posting the data in the Open Library, Swartz made it freely available.

government-produced documents are not covered by copyright

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A respected Harvard researcher who also is an Internet folk hero has been arrested in Boston on charges related to computer hacking, which are based on allegations that he downloaded articles that he was entitled to get free.