He used MIT's computer network to download many academic papers at once, degrading access for others at MIT.
Indicted for breaking and entering by Middlesex Superior Court, despite the closet he used for his acts being allegedly unlocked. https://web.archive.org/web/20170422191512/http://tech.mit.edu/V131/N53/swartz.html
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