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Aerial view of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Credit: MIT)
Aaron Swartz, one of the co-founders of social news site Reddit, was arrested in Boston today and is accused of stealing four million documents from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and JSTOR, an archive of scientific journals and academic papers, The New York Times is reporting.
Schwartz, 24, also founded the nonprofit group Demand Progress, a group with a stated mission of changing public policy that the group believes negatively impacts the Internet. According to Demand Progress' Web site, one of the issues it is against is the Protect IP Act.
Protect IP is a bill that Sen. Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judicial Committee introduced this year that is designed to speed up the process of blocking access to suspected pirate sites in the United States here and broad.
According to the Times, the charges filed against Mr. Swartz include wire fraud, computer fraud, obtaining information from a protected computer and criminal forfeiture.
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