Thanks to weev and his associates, my business partner, many of my volunteers, some family members of the above, and everybody who weev and his "trolls" could reach were subjected to a months-long campaign of constant harassement.
* One volunteer had to interview with Child Protective Services and the police because of false complaints made by weev and his friends.
* Another volunteer had trouble at her university because they tracked down her professors and made false claims.
* Our business faced several Denial of Service attacks and false complaints to our merchant processors and hosting providers.
* Harassing voicemails, phone calls, emails, IMs, IRC messages, etc etc etc.
The list of things that weev and the so-called Gay Niggers Association of America (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Nigger_Association_of_Ameri...) did to us is pretty long. It's sad, really.
In the end, it stopped when (I can only assume) he got bored. We developed a strong relationship with our hosting provider, our new payment processor, and we did as much as we could to help people who were put in bad situations because of weev's actions. Ultimately, we lost some volunteers and bled money for 3 months, but we survived.
So, weev has a good enough story to get his "confession" in TechCrunch and on Twitter and people think that he's another example of the over-broad reach of law and the destruction of young lives by powerful corporations/organizations.
Maybe it is.
But if you value the legacy of Aaron Swartz, do not for one minute confuse him and Andrew Auernheimer. One was a man driven by a vision who helped defeat SOPA and did many other good and noble things, the other is a self-described troll who spent years of his life doing his best to extract "lulz" from the pain and suffering of his fellow human beings.