responsibly, and offered schwartz a six month prison sentence in exchange for guilty plea to 13 felony counts. a deal schwartz rejected. wall street journal editorial board member has been following the story and joins us now. joe, who was aaron schwartz and why was it it a big deal. he s an important figure in the digital world in the sense he s an open source activist. he advocates an ideology says that information wants to be free, so the data base that he went after called jay s store charges universities and libraries a subscription fee as high as $50,000 a year, what he did was he downloaded all of these articles and was going to release them kind of into the internet and was about digital democracy and open access to information. paul: versus the copy right and intellectual property protected under law. fou big a crime, though, really is this? right, well he was stopped in the acter
responsibly, and offered schwartz a six month prison sentence in exchange for guilty plea to 13 felony counts. a deal schwartz rejected. wall street journal editorial board member has been following the story and joins us now. joe, who was aaron schwartz and why was it it a big deal. he s an important figure in the digital world in the sense he s an open source activist. he advocates an ideology says that information wants to be free, so the data base that he went after called jay s store charges universities and libraries a subscription fee as high as $50,000 a year, what he did was he downloaded all of these articles and was going to release them kind of into the internet and was about digital democracy and open access to information. paul: versus the copy right and intellectual property protected under law. fou big a crime, though, really is this? right, well he was stopped in the act and he never