I totally get it and in some way the resistance I sense in your attitudes resonates with my set of values, and I also think there’s a personal freedom of choice and there’s discussion on different perspective, and debate can be civil and respectful.
I didn’t want to imply that “information wants to be free” is a trend that is passe (and I can see and agree with your argument about information travel over the history of human intelligence). To me, personally - and I was actually involved in pre-internet networks at the end of 80s, and was strong proponent of Barbrook’s Cybercommunism Manifesto in late 90s -, seems that the idea of freedom of information is already embeded in todays’ analysis of the techno-social, and there’s an upgrade in a sense that it matters a lot which information is important to be shared and where – in these, new and different times, post web-3.0. I’m just thinking about [doxxing vs cable leaks] for example. or [data harvesting and surveillance by E.corp (Google Facebook Amazon etc) vs data on global covid infections], etc.
for a long time I wanted to simply avoid all the system that is in place regarding copyright, and I’m still against the notions of IP (intellectual property), but at some point I’ve decided to work against it by being loud about what creators and artists really want (in my opinion: audience and food on the table) and that the system that we have is not fair and needs to change into one that gives content creators (blarh, hate that expression) possiblity to spread their work, one that also gives something like a minimum wage, in a form of UBI or similar - in other words guaranteed decent life conditions, and would prevent extraction and exploitation into wealth accumulation based on intellectual property ownership. this change is not possible to do overnight or via revolution (bitcoin I’m looking at you) and needs a lot of analytical work, activism and advocacy.
Lawrence Lessig, creator of Creative Commons licences, said early in the process, that this process - using copyright to release some rights - is a patch on a system that needs a radical reform. I see GNU GPL in a similar way - it exploits an existing right to demand virality of the libre software (share-alike - not present in BSD). these are all modifications of something that is flawed at the core: ownership, property. all good artists know: the song is not artists ‘invention’ in the vacuum, rather it’s the song that has found the artist. (cf Nick Cave)