Under current copyright law, I do not have a right to own a copy of a copyrighted work that I obtained without the permission of its owner. “Information wants t

Under current copyright law, I do not have a right to own a copy of a copyrighted work that I obtained without the permission of its owner. “Information wants to be free” is a fuzzy assertion of ideology that does not have any basis in intellectual property law. “Fair use” is an argument about published works, not the right to possess the underlying copyrighted work in the first place.