The concepts of intellectual property and physical property are at odds and mutually exclusive. If physical property rights are respected and I own a pen and p

The concepts of intellectual property and physical property are at odds and mutually exclusive. If physical property rights are respected and I own a pen and paper, or a hard drive, I have the right to arrange ink on the paper, or magnetic fields on the drive in any pattern I please. To say that one pattern is forbidden is to assume ultimate authority of my property and it is no longer exclusively mine. I don't think that nobody has any methods to protect information. Keeping secrets and securing those secrets with voluntary contracts is perfectly legitimate. But if one party breaches that contract, only the party that agreed to it can be liable. Not a third party who never agreed to it. The idea of intellectual property as a thing is absurd. Intellectual property is not rivalrous, another having it does not deprive the original owner of its use. It is not subject to the same limits as physical property, so the economics that are part of trading physical property don't apply.