Yet efforts by information industries in developed countries to restrict information, demand money for information use, and increase profits in relation to patents and copyrights, inhibit global empower and can't succeed long. Money needs to be coupled to information production in a less-inhibiting way, enough to pay costs of developments, but not enough to limit use. Because of the high transfomity of information (including art, literature, and technology), it is so flexible and transportable that it really can't be regulated well, nor should people try.
We have a neat computer simulation of a mini-model with two competing units that share information. It shows dramatically how a common pool of information used by each maximizes the total productivity of both participants (maximum empower), causing coexistence and a special kind of symbiosis. The implication is that information needs to be shared and unrestricted.
--A Prosperous Way Down: Principles and Policies; Howard T. Odum & Elisabeth C. Odum, 2001; pg. 135,7.