Is it possible that you read [*The Right to Read*](https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html) by Richard Stallman?

It covers the same theme, though it doesn't match all details of your story.

In *The Right to Read,* Dan helps his friend Lissa by loaning her his copy of a book - loaning is illegal.  Lissa and Dan end up migrating to Tycho on Luna.  The right to read  was one of the aims of an uprising.

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The story was written in response to the concept of "digital rights management" (DRM.) 

DRM is called "digital restrictions management" by its opponents.