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Rep Darrell Issa discusses the suicide of Aaron Swartz and comments on how copyright law effects the way knowledge is shared. He also comments on the state of the government's relationship to the "People" and the strict enforcement of laws with inappropriate punishments that stifle innovation. Swartz was an American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist who was involved in the development of the web feed format RSS, the organization Creative Commons, the website framework web.py and the social news site, Reddit. He committed suicide on January 11, 2013 after being charged with two counts of wire fraud and 11 violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for downloading academic journals at MIT and faced 1 million in fines and decades in prison.
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