At 14, Mr. Swartz helped create RSS, the nearly ubiquitous tool that allows
users to subscribe to online information. He later became an Internet folk
hero, pushing to make many Web files free and open to the public. But in
July 2011, he was indicted on federal charges of gaining illegal access to
JSTOR, a subscription-only service for distributing scientific and literary
journals, and downloading 4.8 million articles and documents, nearly the
entire library... On Wednesday, JSTOR announced that it would open its
archives for 1,200 journals to free reading by the public on a limited
basis.
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