Nostr does not make data free; data wants to be free to begin with. It wanted to be free in the times of papyrus, parchment, paper and bits. Thats fine, im a pirate myself, thats not the point. I don't think walling data of is an illegitimate endeavor, be that on a personal level where we call it privacy, or on a business level where it is sold. The fact 'happy flow' systems exist where one party wants something in return for the data they provide and the other party is willing to oblige to receive it, is fine; if you ask me, the fact that the unavoidable reality is that data wants to be free and as a result piracy will occur, is a matter of IS, not OUGHT. Piracy for me has always been a path of less friction, but i don't really share your apparent moral presuppositions that it is some inherrent virtue (although at times it can be, depending...) Insofar the 'spirit' of Nostr is concerned, this system neither locks things into a particular relay, nor a particular client; it adheres to the commandment of interoperability and is therefor 'kosher'/'halal' or whatever. In the name of freedom of association, by self determined term and self determined means; amen.

Information wants to be free. Protocols don’t care so it cannot set that information free. When it’s my data and information I have the freedom (thx to the protocol) to set my own policy on it (to restrict the free of the information). NIP-63 leverages that, it’s a choice / implementation possibily I could apply as a relay operator.

comparing paper with nostr... i hope you're joking. look im not trying to get philosophical here. its very simple, nostr has data portability designed at its very core, copying events, sharing and broadcasting them is what happens all day long on all relays relays are meant to relay events, not poorly attempt to gatekeep them its all up to the user if they want to take the "-" tag into account or not. if piracy was that easy, it wouldnt even be called piracy at that point and if you really still think it could work, in a dystopia where everyone respects that tag, look, companies could start using it in a detrimental way for users. say google for nostr, requiring auth on every connection, then we're right back to centralized systems

in real life a simple tag won't make any difference its like printing something on paper and believing that just because you stamped it, people won't photocopy that paper. that is absurd. if the content on that paper is valuable then it's safe to assume people WILL keep a copy of it. that's the reason why scanners don't let you scan money nostr makes the whole process infinitely easier, its a matter of unchecking a box on your relay settings, and broadcasting the event with a single click