An excellent mini-essay from Charlie Stross regarding the slogan “Information wants to be free.” This explains my frustration with the debate over IP law reform - the tendency of both sides to reduce the issue to ultimately empty slogans.*
So it follows that if you want information to be free you are taking on an obligation [...]
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