I think there is a commonality between the war against pirating , wikileaks and government surveillance programs that all relate in some way to "information wants to be free." I'm not quite sure how to articulate it.

Basically, there is a trend. Technology liberates "information" by improving access to it. But the same forces also work on aggregating information. Information is not just what the government is doing. It's also what you are doing.

When we talk about governments trying harder to maintain their secrets or record companies trying to maintain their copyrights, it seems like they are fighting a lost cause. You can't fight the trend. copyright is meaningless in a world of digital copies. Information gets out. It gets aggregated. Is that any different from these

Same force only this time we don't like the result.