I asked because I did google it and I found nothing.
Aaron Swartz was not "imprisoned for years".
Weev "exposed a flaw in AT&T security in June 2010, which allowed the e-mail addresses of iPad users to be revealed.[39] The flaw was part of a publicly-accessible URL, which allowed the group to collect the e-mails without having to break into AT&T's system.[40] Contrary to what it first claimed,[41] the group revealed the security flaw to Gawker Media before AT&T had been notified,[40] and also exposed the data of 114,000 iPad users, including those of celebrities, the government and the military"
That's a pretty silly security breach, but it's still a real security breach. Not comparable to scraping twitter
Having to go to court in itself and spend literally months or years with the possibility of being sentenced to most of the rest of your life in prison is itself a very severe punishment.
