... the other hand has to be free of charge because it is the mean which connects technology with humans. This essay concludes that it is very difficult to make a decision whether information should be free or not but the important is that if it is, then certain regulations should be created in order to preserve the privacy of restricted information. Introduction "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 and the moral rightness of casual distribution, because each round of new devices makes the tension worse, not better" Brand (1987) p.202 Stewart Brand, author of the book "The media ...

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