Cory Doctorow analysiert, wieso es weniger klug ist, die „Freiheit von Informationen“ zu fordern und wieso es an der Zeit ist, sich gegen die Definition von Freiheit, mit der Hollywood und die Musikindustrie argumentiert (free = free of charge), zur Wehr zu setzen.
„Information wants to be free“ has the same relationship to the digital rights movement that „kill whitey“ has to the racial equality movement: a thoughtless caricature that replaces a nuanced, principled stand with a cartoon character. Calling IWTBF the ideological basis of the movement is like characterising bra burning as the primary preoccupation of feminists.