The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz

00:00:24 Unjust laws exist;

00:05:03 We all had computers, but Aaron really talked to them, really talked to the Internet

00:09:08 Commonly you would use this for a blog

00:13:05 who was then challenging copyright law in the supreme court

00:17:39 and Paul Graham likes him enough and

00:22:27 video game system that wired is testing.

00:27:44 He could be tremendously optimistic about life.

00:32:17 People take a ThumbDrive as one of these libraries

00:36:16 I went into congress, and I invited him to

00:39:14 and it's sick!

00:44:02 He does tell me they beat him up.

00:48:30 It was a time of unprecedent social and political activism

00:52:43 for doing what he did, like

00:56:06 I didn't like it

00:58:59 would refuse to let a friend make a copy.

01:02:53 and he said: "Well I have been arrested"

01:07:04 to get them to go to the government

01:11:16 all they needed was a single claim of copyright infringment.

01:15:26 I don't think anybody thought that SOPA could be beaten, including Aaron.

01:19:23 But SOPA was like playing a major part in a major change.

01:23:28 "we are all in danger, we are all under threat".

01:27:51 There is just a lot of disagreement.

01:32:19 but I also think that he was scared.

01:38:47 He was in my humble opinion one of the true