I believe both companies and citizens to be prisoners of the economic system. You say someone has to pay. To the people of the post-modern society economics, ownership and right to information is a religion. They adhere to economic gods and think they will be redempted the day they become yuppies in suits and ties, that the guy owning the most cars and electronic gadgets when he dies will win the game. My god how I hate these semi-gods.
Information is all there is, yuppieheads.
Perhaps William Gibson was the first to realize this in 1982. Yet very few people have understood what he really meant. Maybe he was not fully aware of it himself. Therefore, we call ourselves cyberpunks. We are outlaws, wired up and connected.