Universal Library and Intelligent Species

Not related to prometheus movie plot or spoiler but more of sci-fi community discussion. While watching the prometheus trailers, I remember old animation of silver surfer. If you know about "[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watcher_%28comics%29]Watchers[/url]/observers" species in silver surfer comics. Maybe you know that there was one episode called universal library. There was a mission where silver surfer and many species from around the universe were heading for that library where "watchers" species created a disease which turns people into slimy creature if they tamper with information in library. Somehow I feel prometheus plot and this plot was on the similar note and then tons of spoilers and promos changed my mind about that theory. I mean keeping aggressive species in URN and also keeping the data about them in some holographic library etc. Still an interesting plot where species intelligent than us are making library like that to keep knowledge of all universe exploration in one place. I don't know how many of you're into sci-fi stories like this. Do you think such universal libraries or knowledge aggregation is good for the primitive species visiting that hive? or they should be prohibited from tapping such knowledge?