And I think the author whom you stole it from was not the original author. Not the original author of the concept anyway. Scott Adams (the Dilbert creator) wrote a "thought experiment" which espouses this very concept, and he wrote it a number of years ago.

If anyone's interested, he gives it away as a free eBook.
And of course, Google's cached version

Yesterday, federal agencies arrested J. Postel, J. Reynolds, and other key members of the RFC 959 working group. Federal spokesmembers argue that past comments about "information wants to be free", "social internet", and the existance of "0-days", "warez dumps", and "pr0n" on FTP sites around the world are clear examples of the intent of the defendants to create software for piracy.

Senator Talking Head(R) or Alabama commented, "This is a great day for freedom loving Americans everywher. Take that you commies!".