Can somebody explain to me the 30 years in prison Aaron Swartz was facing?
I read everywhere, that Aaron was facing decades in prison. But no explanation how this was calculated.<p>Most articles say the main charge was gaining unauthorized access to a protected computer. But not everyone who circumvents some security system will spend half of his life in prison, right?<p>So was it because of the value of the data he copied? If so, what is the formulat that is used to turn "value of copied stuff" into "years in prison"?