How does anonymous communication effect us? We read information, watch videos, and listen to audio recordings and much of the time we have no idea who is responsible for the ideas if information is not credited who is responsible? Does somebody need to be held accountable?

This has affected the way we relate to ownership, if the creator is nameless, does the user have to identify his source or is the information “common knowledge”?

In the age of Wikipedia, blogging and Digg, even major magazines do not always sight the author of the article, does this mean the information is free for anyone to use and to claim ownership of? When I want a piece of information on a historic date, a biography or a definition or synonym I type a few key words into Google and click on the first article that seems to fit my needs. The concept of opening a book seems laborious and out of date.