This is well worth a read, I think.

[bunn]

http://mwf2014.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/glam-and-the-free-world/ - Cory Doctorow.

"There are people who caricature this whole position
Who say that this a mere naive belief that “information wants to be free”
But I’ve had a long talk with information about this
We went away for a weekend in the country, drank white wine, cried and hugged
And when it was over, information whispered in my ear that it doesn’t want to be free
The only thing it wants is for us to stop anthropomorphizing it
Because information doesn’t WANT anything
It’s a mere abstraction
However, PEOPLE want to be free
And when the world is made up of networked information-processing devices, that human freedom can only be attained through a free, open, and fair informational infrastructure
Help us create it."

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My assessment was, TBH, based on the blurb you pasted; the rest of the article I've only had time to skim cursorily thus far. I'll read it with the proper attention at...some point. =D

The course I'm currently taking is more about methodology than theory and ethics, but I'm definitely interested in the ethics part.