But we also have to recognize that in some respects information is fundamentally different from all other commodities. If I buy a burrito and I use it, it's gone. But information can be used without being used up. If I buy a radio and I give it to you, then I don't have it anymore. But with these new technologies, I can acquire intellectual property and share it with you and keep it at the same time.
Information is as much a necessity of intellectual and economic life as food is of biologic life.
Not only is it morally wrong to deny people the necessities of life, it's impractical. When people can't afford to buy food, they steal it. And if they have to cut off Marie Antoinette's head to put bread on the table for their kids, they will do it. Furthermore, despite our culture's deification of the individual entrepreneur, the truth is that human advancement is a collective process. It is in the long-term interest of society as a whole to provide educational opportunities to all, rich and poor.