I think the moral dilemma is a completely artificial one. You have to do a lot of bending over backwards in your head before you come to the extremely weird conclusion that knowledge can "belong" to a particular person or entity, and the even weirder conclusion that even if you pay for access to the knowledge, you still don't get to share it as you see fit. This is just capitalism-brain, nothing more. It's not natural, and it's definitely not optimal as far as moral maxims go.
That modern society is structured around protecting Alice rather than protecting Bob and helping him free the 0s and 1s is simply a side effect of this, and an extremely unfortunate, progress-stalling one... the kind where you seriously contemplate going back in a time-machine to fix whatever went wrong to make us end up with.. this...
That modern society is structured around protecting Alice rather than protecting Bob and helping him free the 0s and 1s is simply a side effect of this, and an extremely unfortunate, progress-stalling one... the kind where you seriously contemplate going back in a time-machine to fix whatever went wrong to make us end up with.. this...