As a teenager, Aaron Swartz created and designed everyday internet tools we take for granted, including RSS, Reddit, and Creative Commons. He increasingly became more interested in politics and frustrated by how only people with money could access legal documents and research articles. One day he decided to hack into JSTOR, a digital library full of research articles and downloaded a large quantity of them. In 2011, he was arrested by federal authorities and faced a sentence of up to 35 years in prison. Under immense pressure, he committed suicide by hanging in 2013.