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When I used to buy Wired in its paper form, they had this thing about how "information wants to be free". Did the original author approve the work being behind
by ZeroGravitas 2y ago
When I used to buy Wired in its paper form, they had this thing about how "information wants to be free".
Did the original author approve the work being behind a digital pay wall and get rewarded for their work, or was it some later private equity style ghoul who couldn't help but gatekeep and rent seek the duplication of bits as a middleman?
If the latter then maybe we should be sad and angry.
- wiml 2y agoI think you misunderstand the saying. Information wants to be free — it is naturally so cheap to copy and transmit that its marginal cost is effectively zero. That doesn't mean you want it to be free, or that WIRED wants it to be free. Like nature abhors a vacuum, or water seeks the sea, information wants to be free. Yet we still build thermoses and reservoirs.