year ago this month, the young internet freedom activist and groundbreaking programmer took his own life. he was just 26 years old. he died shortly before he was set to go to trial for downloading millions of academic articles from servers at mit. he was facing up to 35 years in prison and a $1 million fine. we will play excerpts of the film and speak with aaron s brother noah, his lawyer elliot peters, and the filmmaker brian knappenberger. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. we are broadcasting from park city tv in utah. president obama has unveiled his long-awaited review of the nsa s surveillance programs over six months since edward snowden exposed them to global scrutiny. in a move denounced by privacy advocates, obama refused to end the bulk collection of telephone metadata, saying only he will modify it from how it currently exists. i am therefore ordering a transition that will end t
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