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(JENNIFER PELTZ, Associated Press) - Portraying his suicide as the product of injustice, friends and supporters at a memorial Saturday for free-information advocate Aaron Swartz called for changing computer-crime laws and the legal system itself. At a New York City ceremony that was part tribute and part rallying cry, Swartz - who killed himself this month as he faced trial on hacking charges - was painted as a precocious technologist, erudite activist and hounded hero. One speaker ...