yeah, the official story is that he scraped MIT's JSTORE library and because he was so involved in activism against SOPA they hit him with that ridiculous lawsuit that would destroy his (financial) life. The pressure made him hero...but with the more recent revelations about MIT cats being associated with Epstein, and one of their professors publicly defending pedophilia, maybe there was something else there. I didn't know about the hanging thing...can't find how exactly he did it.

Hanging yourself on a doorknob is literally prison shit. If you could afford a gun, why the fuck wouldn't you do that instead? More painless, more immediate, way more effective. When Carradine went to thailand 'seeking out information on secret societies' and died that way, I heard a lot of people say this was an erotic autoasphyxiation thing gone bad. Doesn't seem so possible now with this trend.

Here's a scene from Michael Clayton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3Fva8HFRDg&list=PL27WbeSAsYarcEqsQFW51w2G-UJURPm-w&index=15&t=0s