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With a new afterword by the author.In 2013, computer programmer and free culture champion Aaron Swartz committed suicide at the age of twenty-six after being indicted by the government for illegally downloading millions of academic articles from a nonprofit online database. The Idealist examines Swartz's life, work, and undoing in the context of two hundred years of struggle over the control of information. In briskly thoughtful prose, Justin Peters explores the history of copyright statues and the public domain and narrates Swartz's ascent from awkward teenage prodigy to posthumous cultural icon. As the Internet grows more corporatized, The Idealist presents an important investigation of the fate of the digital commons and an essential look at how the free culture movement will impact our daily lives for generations to come.