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==Foundations==

===Rights to know, Freedom of Information, and Equality===

As Aaron Swartz said, scientists, librarians, and scholars can access information freely, while lower class and middle class people get locked behind unfair paywall to access knowledge (i.e. 50$ encyclopedia with 2000 pages of information.) which create unfair elitism and inaccessibility by corporations (i.e. publishers.). The basis of piratism is your rights to know anything that's locked behind expensive paywall and equality.

===Free speech===

The theory is that you can use copyright to stop anyone from criticizing your works because it needs the content from your works as the basis of criticism. Copyright also reduce academic discussion heavily with the same reason as the criticism part above. It hinder freedom of speech to criticise.