Oh, the irony! What ignorant call this the good part of the media, this is the most disgusting side of the media. Unscrupulous producers make this ONLY after Aaron Swartz has died. This way Aaron Swartz becomes an inflatable doll, a puppet for the producer's own agenda and greed.Was Aaron Swartz a nobody? Quite the opposite. Did he discover his ideas somehow during his final living days? Of course not. Aaron Swartz could have been interviewed and questioned for hours. But a live Aaron Swartz is uninteresting both for the producers and for the crowd. They all badly need a dead messiah they can make, twist, and edit anyway they please to fit their own petty agendas. And the real Aaron Swartz can't even get to the microphone and say "you are getting me wrong". And they all know that. That is why they did not care about the living Aaron Swartz and let him spiral into depression and ultimately end his life alone. Even the title is disparaging: Aaron Swartz is "boy". And he belongs to the god of internet. Somehow, even with all his achievements, Aaron Swartz never made it up to "man". Now, call the mercantile peddlers of controversy that made this film "boy" and watch them frown. If they identify as male, certainly won't accept being called "boy".This documentary stands for what is more disgusting in the scandal media today.Contact me with Questions, Comments or Suggestions ryitfork @ bitmail.ch

Other reviews here explain what this is about and the issues that this confronts. Maybe you think this is not for you because you don't feel that those issues affect you that much.You should still watch this, you see Aaron as a young boy, reading his story book out loud, on to a boy whose moral compass was fixed from a young age. He made a brave decision, to stand up for what he believed. In the political climate of the time, and with the players involved, his actions were viewed in a very dim light. He stood up, again, and again and again. They kept after him, determined to use this young bright life to make a point. They do, and we can only think less of them for doing so.

The movie is based on the life of Aaron Swartz, a programmer, entrepreneur and an Internet hacktivist, who ended his life at an early age of 26. This is a documentary and all the cast were the people involved in his life, including Tim Berners-Lee (the inventor of World Wide Web (WWW)).He started programming at a very early age and was involved in making websites. He was involved in development of web feed format RSS, the organization Creative Commons, the social news site Reddit. He also focused on civic awareness and activism.He was arrested on charges of breaking and entering with intent to commit a felony. He was a research fellow at Harvard University at the time of his arrest and a visitor of MIT. He used JSTOR, a digital repository, to download a large number of academic journal articles through MIT's computer network (which is not public and people have to pay to get the articles. But MIT's students were authorized to access JSTOR through it's network for free). He was captured on a camera using the computer which was used to download the articles. From there on his charges grew with an intent set an example as to what can happen when people try to cross borders. I strongly feel that he was overcharged.This movie leaves us with the thought of how a political system can use the outdated rules to convict innocent people and how important it is to give open access to the research articles to help improve technology and make world a better place.

The story is interesting enough for a documentary, well filmed, made a little bit boring at times though. But it is wounded from the beginning by an inescapable contradiction.Aaron Swartz was a brilliant engaged young man who wanted to make this world a better place. He had a relentless energy and this rare capacity of combining deep technical knowledge with charisma, rhetorical power and strategical planning. He wanted to make a difference and wanted you to be part of making that difference. He seemed to be marked for greatness.And then he is indicted by the government, implicated in a promiscuous process absolutely out of proportion, which thought to make an example out of him. And he gets depressed. And who wouldn't if you were facing the spectrum of 35 years in prison? The next thing you know he commits suicide.Well, I will never judge someone who takes his own life. I'm not a moralist. What I judge is this. Here is a guy, an activist, no doubt a fantastic human being, whose apparent message was let's fight, fight, fight. We can beat and change the system, do good things. Let's not give up. And then he commits suicide? He does in fact give up? Are you kidding me? What about the glowing ideas? What about the inspiring speeches? What about the final message? When the chips are down, blow your brains out?For me he is not a martyr. Nor a victim. Not even a dreamer. For me he is someone who betrayed everything he stood for.True heroes that really make a difference are Assanges and Snowdens, not Swartzes.