Aaron Swartz was a wanker with a ginormous sense of entitlement. His contributions were very modest. Infogami was nothing much at all and he only got into Reddit for a favor that Paul Graham owed Aaron's father. His interest in "free books" grew out of his sense of entitlement that others owed him the fruits of their labor. Aaron Swartz, the legend, grew out of Aaron Swartz, the realm life person, to fill a need for heroes and role models in the same culture of nincompoops that made the fictional Satoshi Nakamoto a prophet.