>The knowledge isn’t copyrighted and, thank god, cannot be.

We copyright knowledge all the time, what do you mean? Those are called patents.

>I thought we were supposed to be hackers. Information wants to be free and all that.

Yes, hence why I'm baffled people are fine with billion dollar companies DDOSing the internet so they can contain knowledge in a black box. And literally destroying some knowledge in the process.

I guess "hackers" also gladly give up freedom for a bit of convenience when it suits them.