Information wants to be free
Economically speaking, it is more efficient to pay for the production of information than to pay for information itself.
This is true for a number of reasons:
1. Information is a public good, and therefore can’t be sold
2. Copyright creates artificial monopolies, which cause market innefficiency
3. Because copyrighted information is non-rival, and the [...]
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