> I've always found the "hey Twitter friends, I wrote a guide, buy it for $90 now!" stuff super unethical anyways. First of all, the information they sell that way is 100% available for free somewhere else or is useless. They're usually mediocre in their fields, but have chops for social media marketing.

true.

but the fact that every and all information is be encoded within pi[1] does somehow not slience the intellectual property debate.

probably because arrangement and presentation also have value.

[1] https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/pifs