Summary book 'free' - Information wants to be free

In 1984 published the journalist Steven Levy Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. He made a list of seven principles of the "hacker ethic":

1. Access to computers - and anything you can make wiser about the way the world works - should be unlimited and absolute.
2. Always listen to the command: find everything yourself!
3. All information belongs to be free.
4. Distrust authority - stimulate decentralization.
5. Hackers have their operations reviewed hackers are not stupid and criteria as education, age, race or social position.
6. You can create art and beauty on a computer.
7. Computers can change your life for the better.

Item 3) was pretty influencial. On the one hand, information wants to be expensive because it is so valuable. The right information at the right place will change your live. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of distribution information are consistently low. So you have these two sides against each other. The author nuance the dilemma as follows:

Abundant/general information wants to be free. Scarce/personalized information wants to be expensive