Conflict of interest

'Information wants to be free'1 is a glib lie with horrible consequences. Let's take the example of journalism. Journalists need to make a living. Since what they produce is information, in the form of journalism, they need to get paid for the production of it, somehow. The information they create is, in fact, not free to create, and when people refuse to pay for it this means that the journalists don't get paid for what they do. Well, perhaps they can get paid some other way? Perhaps, for...