I remember watching the Aaron Schwartz documentary and it was fucking heart breaking.

I'm sure I recall some youngster using the information Schwartz leaked to create some sort of medical breakthrough for pancreatic cancer, or something of the likes. If all this information was free, how many other breakthroughs in every field do you think there would be?
Perhaps that's the point though..

I don't know where these fuckers get the gall to presume that they have the right to profit from work that they did not even produce.

Information should be part of the public library, free for everyone to study so we can progress as a species.

This reminds me of the Vatican library also. A 26 mile long library full of Ancient books and untold wisdom, yet to the average man you have no chance of exploring it, or learning from the lessons contained in there.

It truly is sickening, yet it is hardly surprising. It's no different with knowledge than it is with food, water, money or anything else that we need to improve the quality of our lives in today's society.

Forgive me. Started having a little rant of my own there. What I meant to say was--

Great piece. This is a very important matter that needs a lot more attention.