It's not just self-indulgent creeps, though, sticking their knives into copyright holders here and there. It is so easy to violate copyright on the Internet. Without breathing hard, you can publish other people's essays for millions to read. The conspiracy theory. It is true that most of those lobbying in favor of copyright law are large corporations, including software companies, movie studios, record labels and newspapers.
Nobody wants to root for big companies trying to make money.
Information Wants to Be Free. This is a motto often heard in discussions of Internet culture. But of course, information doesn't want anything. I know the feeling. It's frustrating, when cruising the vast efflorescence of the Web, to notice yet again that the best information is either unavailable or expensive or surrounded by advertising and registration procedures.