Internet’s Own Boy
A spellbinding portrait of the Internet whiz kid's life and political convictions, which were cut short by his suicide in early 2013.
The Internet’s Own Boy
The new film by Brian Knappenberger, director of We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists, follows the late Internet activist and programming pioneer Aaron Swartz from his teenage emergence on the Internet scene and involvement in RSS and Reddit, to his growing interest in political advocacy and the controversial actions he allegedly took in downloading nearly four million academic articles from the online service JSTOR. The film explores Aaron’s arrest, the prosecution’s tactics in bringing the case to trial through the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the CFAA, and the impact a seemingly small hacking gesture had on Aaron’s life and the possible future of information access on the Internet.
Genre
Documentary,
Bio-pic,
Crime
Runtime
105
Language
English
Director
Brian Knappenberger
FEATURED REVIEW
John DeFore, Hollywood Reporte
All but a must-see for anyone who knows enough to care about the way laws govern information transfer in the digital age, Brian Knappenberger's The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz is an inspiring account of the life of, and an infuriating chronology of the persecution of, one of the ...
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Playhouse 7 6.27.14 - 7.03.14
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