Is this morally wrong?

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Information wants to be free.

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I wonder how much thought goes through the brain to make this statement.

Whenever I download something illegally, I know it's wrong.

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You may be interested in reading this.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2....ideas_pr.html

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"Notions of property, value, ownership, and the nature of wealth itself are changing more fundamentally than at any time since the Sumerians first poked cuneiform into wet clay and called it stored grain. Only a very few people are aware of the enormity of this shift, and fewer of them are lawyers or public officials."

I guess it's limited to freethinkers like the author of this article. I only got about a third into it. It was too wordy and didn't make any strong points so I gave up. The argument, as far as I read, was something like, "You can't stop the piracy of digital property so people shouldn't try." They may be correct about efforts to protect digital property being futile, but I don't think we should give up just yet.