information as product, as a commodity, an item to be bought, sold, traded, owned, define information, a thought process, an idea, as simple as that? a thought, a thought put to paper, the construction of words next to each other, and suddenly, because no one else said i own that particular combination of ink on paper, that i get ownership and no one else does, and to use that i am owed? sources, wellsprings, aren't muses the original patent holders? what of Prometheus? to have paid him for fire? why not gods asking for royalties? information, power, money, all in and one the same, but such things, a cataclysm, an apocraphyal, the ending, the phoenix rebirth, destruction and building, time to tear down the walls, blow your horn, keep those trumpets sounding