(Aaron Swarz. Picture by Daniel J. Sieradski, licensed under CC-BY-SA. From Wikimedia Commons: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AaronSwartzPIPA.jpg)

After the suicide of internet activist Aaron Swarz, who was being prosecuted for alleged hacking to download millions of academic articles from a private database, many tributes flooded in. These are some of our favourites.

http://boingboing.net/2013/01/12/rip-aaron-swartz.html
http://questioncopyright.org/remembering_aaron_swartz
http://www.rememberaaronsw.com/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gabriella-coleman/hackers-for-right-we-are-_b_2472307.html

The Aaron Swartz JSTOR liberator is a tiny bit of civil disobedience, presented in clicktivism form.

And in light of the continuing prosecution of many other internet activists like Swarz, this article asks: "why is the US prosecuting in such draconian fashion?"