The legal fiction of "intellectual property" has not only this fundamental problem of colliding with real property rights but also serious security problems here. If every Tom, Dick, and Harry with a software product, music they produced, or whatever else insists on being able to monitor and control my use, and therefore on having back doors into my computer, that computer's firewall turns into Swiss cheese. No system administrator worth his salary is going to tolerate that; keeping a possibly-mission-critical machine secure certainly means not allowing any random person to stick their hands into it and grub around, whether by subterfuge or by legalistic arguments regarding "auditing" the use of "their" "intellectual property"! Keeping out untrusted people from a system means keeping out Microsoft and the RIAA and the likes, and not just the usual black hats coming in through proxies in .ru and the like. All of them have ulterior motives and may be at cross-purposes with you, and all of them additionally can gum things up by fat-fingering something besides. You wouldn't let any of them near the actual hardware and the mouse and keyboard, would you? Thought not.

The conflict between our property rights in what we have purchased and use in our day-to-day business and others' so-called "intellectual property" rights is unavoidable and growing by the hour. Only one of them can win, and the wrong one would mean the end of innovation, freedom of speech, and actual property rights and the beginning of an era of everything being controlled by a few large monopolies in a rather Stalinistic manner.