Exclusive control of your own work is one thing. Using that exclusive control for the detriment of everyone else is entirely another. That's what the article is

Exclusive control of your own work is one thing. Using that exclusive control for the detriment of everyone else is entirely another. That's what the article is talking about. First, let me say up front that I don't believe in "Intellectual Property". Things get independently invented far too often for the mere invention of an idea to be raised to some holy status. There is no moral basis for "Intellectual Property". "IP" has no "P", either. without an intrusive, all-monitoring system, nobody can tell if I've copied or not. Suppose I, as a pirate, see another ship with a better system of rigging the sails in the port of Cherbourg. I sail off to the Caribbean and re-rig the first sloop I take with this new system, as I can sail a point closer to windward with it. Can the "IP" "owner" back in Cherbourg tell that I have "stolen" his precious "IP"? No. "IP" is NOT PROPERTY in any sense other than by definition. So, control your own work, control your own property, and accept that anyone who sees it, can copy it. Do a better job of manufacturing or supporting your "IP" and all imitators will be just that, imitators. Down with Intellectual Monopoly! The consequences are bad for everyone!