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Aaron Schwarz's crime under provisions of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act was to

Odownload a large quantity of dissertations and other research material from the MIT server
O upload volumes of plagiarized as well as erroneous research studies
Odownload large volumes of highly classified material from MIT's federal laboratory
O upload large numbers of falsified grade reports for MIT students who paid him a small fee

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Schwarz was a Harvard University research fellow who was fined $1 million and sentenced to 50 years in prison under the law for siphoning documents from JSTOR, a digital repository of academic journals.'

Aaron's Law is a bill introduced in Congress in 2013 to reform the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 .

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