Information must always remain a commodity within cyberspace. Yet, within the Net, free speech is evolving into the fluid process of 'interactive creativity'. Information exists as commodities, gifts and hybrids of the two. Yet, the letter of law criminalises the on-line activities of almost every Net user. The 'negative' concept of media freedom prohibits political censorship only to justify economic censorship.
Free trade is state power.
In their daily lives, everyone knows that there is almost no chance of being punished for swapping information. The existing copyright laws are increasingly unenforceable within the Net. If only for pragmatic reasons, the concept of media freedom now needs be extended beyond freedom from political censorship. In nineteenth century Europe, Karl Marx argued that free speech shouldn't be confined within free trade. The Left had to struggle not only against political censorship, but also economic censorship.