Those aren't equal, however.

Aaron Swartz was murdered by a company that prints scientific journals that paywall papers paid for with US government grants; his "crime" was using the access granted to him by MIT, legally. At no point did he break any laws nor the license granted to him by the paywall service.

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta all _knowingly_ pirated Copyrighted works en masse, knowing they did not have a license to do so, and then distributed those works, again, knowing they did not have a license to do so.

I do not think anyone should be murdered by the state, but the difference between Aaron Swartz and Sam Altman is one of them did it to fix a great injustice, the other did it as a fly-by-night get rich scheme.

Notice the one that did things legally got murdered, while the criminal continues to walk the streets.