From the editor in chief
It has become a tenet of the Internet age that information wants to be free.
"Information," according to this dogma, encompasses music, movies, and anything else that can be represented by digital bits. Music wants to be free, proclaim the peer-to-peer file-sharers who use the Internet to help themselves to MP3 files of their favorite songs. Movies want to be free, chime in the "cammers" who sneak digital cameras into screening rooms and dump copies of films onto the Web before they have made their official debuts.
But these "truths" are myths. It's more accurate to say that information wants a fee.
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