Amid Fallout Over Internet Activist's Death, Poll Shows Most Americans Favor Mild Punishment for Illegal Downloads
The suicide of 26-year-old Reddit co-founder and open Internet activist Aaron Swartz late last week has reignited the debate over what should be publicly available online and how illegal distribution can be fairly prosecuted just as a new poll shows that just over 10 percent of Americans believe jail time is a reasonable punishment for those who download copyrighted material online.
The suicide of 26-year-old Reddit co-founder and open Internet activist Aaron Swartz late last week has reignited the debate over what should be publicly available online and how illegal distribution can be fairly prosecuted just as a new poll shows that just over 10 percent of Americans believe jail time is a reasonable punishment for those who download copyrighted material online.
Swartz was facing up to 35 years in prison and $1 million in fines for gaining unauthorized access to an MIT server and downloading academic articles from the digital archive JSTOR.
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