"Information wants to be free"

Alan Olsen alan at clueserver.org
Tue Feb 27 20:36:44 PST 2001


On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Tim May wrote:

> >Right.  All the "content-for-pay" artists now have to compete
> >against all the unpaid amateurs who are webpublishing because
> >webpublishing is easy and nearly free.
> 
> Or because "information wants to be free" (*) and _someone_ will make 
> the songs or images or whatever available for absolutely nothing. 
> Good examples of this are Napster, of course, and the 
> alt.binaries.erotica.* Usenet newsgroups.

"Information *actually* wants to be tied up and spanked."

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