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There are even different kinds of Intellectual Property. All of them need quite different treatment to physical property.
I can make a copy of your old house or garden and many other things without depriving anyone. I can easily make copies even of a paper book and mass produce it. That deprives the author and publisher.
If I have more money I can copy an Intel CPU or ARM CPU and mass produce. That doesn't just deprive them of sales but removes incentive to spend millions on R&D if it's simply copied.
DRM and DMCA are though evil. It's trivial for any "pirate" producer to copy a BluRay (point HD camera at a 4K screen in the dark) or audio book, or encrypted audio or video streaming or broadcast. DRM & DMCA simply make life hard for ordinary users, taking away rights they had under ordinary Patent and Copyright laws. Corporate abuse. Adds cost to all HW (the royalty encumbered decoding and the HW/SW). About illegal exploitation of markets (c.f. EU sales vs USA sales) and making people buy the same content multiple times.
USA Design Patent = UK Registered Design.
There is problem with how USPTO does patent awarding and Software should only be copyright, never subject to patent.
But it's fantasy to suppose physical objects and Intellectual content can be remotely treated the same!
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