"1987". . . "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."@en. . . . . "Source: Freebase - The World's database". . . "\"Information Wants to be Free ...\""@en. "http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/II/IWtbF.html".