The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz

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View the open-access documentary on him, The Internet's Own Boy. He was behind Archive.org, Reddit, RSS, Creative Commons, and a huge impetus to the anti-IP, anti-copyright, anti-patents, open access, and open source movement. Desepite any good he may have done, he committed suicide (or was he really suicided?).

The first writing in this book ("Downloading Isn't Stealing") is a very concise refutation of sharing = stealing; cf. Kinsella's Against Intellectual Property, where he discusses how theft was impossible in the Garden of Eden.