Intellectual property is not real property. The idea that media is "consumed" is an artifice. When you consume a media product, it actually still exists and n

Intellectual property is not real property. The idea that media is "consumed" is an artifice. When you consume a media product, it actually still exists and nothing is meaningfully physically depleted. Intellectual property is an artificial law construct meant to "promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries" according to the Constitution. Sitting on your ass and collecting rent every time someone watches a movie from the 1940's for the next 150+ years--which is an action on a copy of a work and not really equivalent to anything involving real property--is not promoting the progress of anything but the wealth and power of media conglomerates. Combine this with the ability of money to buy laws and you are looking at establishment of permanent legacies through copyright.