This is an excerpt from Brewster Kahle's presentation at Aaron Swartz Day, November 8, 2014, at the Internet Archive in San Francisco.In this talk, he summarizes and elaborates on a paper "Torture and Plea Bargaining," http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/543/ , written by Professor John H. Langbein, at Yale Law School, from 1978, in which he explains how the state-sanctioned torture techniques used to make people confess during of the European Middle Ages seem oddly similar to the current plea bargaining techniques employed by the U.S. Government today. Specifically, he explains how these techniques were used on Aaron Swartz, and attempts to suggest some actions to take to try to bring attention to this huge problem in our legal system.A complete transcription of his talk can be found at: http://www.aaronswartzday.org/torture-plea-bargaining / ‎