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In ''United States of America v. Aaron Swartz'', Aaron Swartz, an American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist, was prosecuted for many violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), after downloading a great many academic journal articles over the MIT computer network from a source for which he had an account as a Harvard research fellow. Facing trial and the possibility of imprisonment, Swartz committed suicide, and the case was consequently dismissed.〔(July 2011 Initial Federal Indictment of Aaron Swartz ). Posted by New York Times, 19 July 2011. Retrieved 20 May 2013.〕〔〔 ==Background== On January 6, 2011, Swartz was arrested by MIT police on state breaking-and-entering charges, in connection with the systematic downloading of academic journal articles from JSTOR.〔〔〔 Federal prosecutors eventually charged him with two counts of wire fraud and 11 violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act,〔 charges carrying a cumulative maximum penalty of $1 million in fines plus 35 years in prison, asset forfeiture, restitution and supervised release.〔 On January 11, 2013, two years after his initial arrest, Swartz was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment, where he had hanged himself.〔 JSTOR is a digital repository that archives − and disseminates online − manuscripts, GIS systems, scanned plant specimens and content from academic journal articles. Swartz was a research fellow at Harvard University, which provided him with a JSTOR account. Visitors to MIT’s "open campus" were authorized to access JSTOR through its network.〔(Granick, Jennifer, ''Towards Learning from Losing Aaron Swartz: Part 2'', The Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School blog, 15 January 2013. ) Retrieved 26 January 2013.〕 According to state and federal authorities, Swartz downloaded a large number of academic journal articles from JSTOR through MIT’s computer network, over the course of a few weeks in late 2010 and early 2011.〔 They said Swartz downloaded the documents to a laptop computer connected to a networking switch in a controlled-access wiring closet.〔〔〔 According to press reports, the door to the closet was kept unlocked. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「United States v. Swartz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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