"Information wants to be free" is a sentence famously pronounced by Stewart Brand at the first Hackers’ Conference in 1984, and has since become the motto of the Free Content movement.
It probably refers to the idea that putting restraints to information is not only wrong (because for culture and society to grow and prosper, the access to information should be granted to all at no price) but useless, because there is no way to stop information from flowing freely.
One of the main revolutionary concepts of the digital age is that now information is made of bits and does not need atoms to propagate. It’s another way that information wants to be free: actually it wants to be freeD from physical supports: being able to transfer text, music and video through the Net is useless, if the piece of information that’s been downloaded has to be stored on a physical support.
This is one of the goals of Reeplay: freeing you from the burden of storing content, from the pain of having to remember what content you want to take with you, and letting you access all your saved video content on any platform, at any time.
Because, as the declining sales of DVDs and the premature death of BluRay disc demonstrates, support is dead.
It is true, though, that we are still dependant on hardware. And we will be until the moment when all technological supports will be made useless by the disappearance of hardware and/or its absorption in the world around us.