Humanities Homework Help

Not everyone agrees that intellectual material is property that should be protected. The slogan “information wants to be free” has been showing up in popular magazines and on the internet for a long time, often with a call to readers to take action against protection such as data encryption and further extension of copyright.

Using a search engine, look for pages where the phrase “information wants to be free” or “free information” appears.. Find several sites that make arguments in favor of free information, and analyze them in terms of their rhetorical appeals. What claims do the authors make? How do they appeal to their audience? What’s the site’s ethos, and how is it created?