Intellectual property laws are what creates the entitlement that someone else besides you can tell you what to do with the things Internet connected computers a

Intellectual property laws are what creates the entitlement that someone else besides you can tell you what to do with the things Internet connected computers and phones download, because almost everything you download is copy of something a person created, therefore its copyrighted for the life of the author + 75 years or whatever by default. Therefore artifices like "you don't have the right to view this website without ads" or "you can't use your phone, computer, or LLM to download or process this outside of my terms because copyright" become possible, institutionalizable, enforceable, and eventually unbypassable by technology. If we reverted back to the Constitutional purpose of copyright (to Progress the Science and Useful Arts) then things might be more free. That's probably not happening in my lifetime or yours.