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"Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive.  
Information wants to be free because it has become so cheap to  
distribute, copy, and recombine—too cheap to meter. It wants to be  
expensive because it can be immeasurably valuable to the recipient.  
That tension will not go away. It leads to endless wrenching debate  
about price, copyright, ‘intellectual property’, the moral rightness  
of casual distribution, because each round of new devices makes the  
tension worse, not better."

Stewart Brand first said it in 1984 at the first Hackers’ Conference.  
It was first printed in the May 1985 Whole Earth Review, and again in  
1987 in his book, “The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_wants_to_be_free