Federal prosecutors in Massachusetts on Monday dropped all charges against late Internet activist and programmer Aaron Swartz, the Associated Press reports. Swartz, 26, was found dead in his New York City apartment on Friday, January 11, victim of an apparent suicide. He had been indicted in 2011 on 13 counts, including wire fraud and computer fraud, for gaining unauthorized access to the subscriber portion of the JSTOR academic article database through a computer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from which he downloaded 4.8 million protected journal articles.
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