Aaron Swartz’s family has released footage from his funeral service on Tuesday.
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Aaron Swartz dies at 26
Aaron Swartz took his own life Friday, January 11, just weeks before he was to go on trial for allegedly stealing millions of journal articles from a Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer archive. The charges could have sent him to prison for decades if he had been convicted.
He was 26-years-old.
Swartz burst on the Internet scene at the age of 14, co-writing the now indispensable computer code known as RSS, among many other things. At one point, he formed a company that merged with Reddit, the popular news and information site.
But Swartz suffered from depression, and family and friends are now pointing a finger squarely at the Justice Department and federal prosecutors for contributing to his death.
