On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 5:54 PM, James A. Donald
   <[1]jamesd@echeque.com> wrote:

     Just look at the smirk on Schwartz's face.  Obviously he never
     expected to be punished.  He committed suicide not because a year in
     a country club prison was terribly harsh punishment, but because it
     was revealed he was not above the law after all.
     If anyone in the world was prepared to suffer for his beliefs, that
     person was not Aaron Schwartz.

     As to Swartz he didn't commit any real crime so he never was, or
     pretended
     to be, 'above the law'.

     Accessing someone else's computers without permission to obtain the
     information therein is trespass.  The powerful trespass against the
     less powerful.  He had mistaken ideas about how powerful he was.

   Just so people on this list are aware, James is either trolling or
   really hated Aaron for some reason. Earlier this year on the randombit
   crypto mailing list, he stated that it was a good thing Aaron killed
   himself seeing as he "needed killing."
   [2]http://lists.randombit.net/pipermail/cryptography/2013-March/003947.
   html

References

   1. mailto:jamesd@echeque.com
   2. http://lists.randombit.net/pipermail/cryptography/2013-March/003947.html