Hackers Who Tangled With the Feds and Lost  Click To View
Slideshow» These hackers have taken on the U.S. government, only
to land in jail or incur hefty fines.  Over the weekend, an
outpouring of grief made its way through the Web following the
suicide of Internet activist Aaron Swartz. Described as a "Web
genius" by luminary Lawrence Lessig, Swartz (right) was also
known for helping to found the popular Internet discussion site,
Reddit.  Swartz's death came exactly two years after his arrest
for allegedly downloading 4.8 million articles from JSTOR, a
non-profit archive of academic journals, after tapping into the
site from a computer wiring closet at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. Swartz argued - and many agreed with
him - that the articles he downloaded and shared were part of
humanity's collected knowledge that deserved to be shared freely
amongst the scientific community.  But the government didn't
agree. Swartz was initially charged with four separate felonies,
including wire fraud and thef