Took me a while to get through the first half of this, which is all about the history of copyright - I ended up just reading it every now & then. But once I got to Swartz's story, I put down everything else I was reading and whizzed through this. Even though the first half read slow, I appreciated the context it provided for the years of bureaucracy & capitalist opposition that Swartz faced in his activism. I think Peters does a fantastic job of imbuing all of the main players in both sections (and on both sides of the issue) with personality and humanity. There are even moments of humor. This works well as a companion to the 2014 film about Swartz, "The Internet's Own Boy" – where the film is largely emotional, this book is analytical, determined to tease out the implications of an ideology of "open culture" and its tension with the capitalist/preservationist interests of copyright. 

tl;dr this book is great. It writes about complex issues in an accessible way, and honors Aaron Swartz by treating him as a flawed and brilliant person rather than a perfect martyr for a perfect cause. You done good, Peters.