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Intellectual property rights is a difficult issue for our culture. You've got to find a way to compensate the producer of intellectual property or there will be no incentive to produce it.
But the idea of copyrighting an idea has been an anethema to us. Books, music, photography, movies are all created with ideas as the raw material, so their status as property gets blurry. But we have always considered them 'property'. When you add modern digital technology into the mix with it's EASY capability for copying stuff created from that intellectual raw material, it is obvious that problems will arise.
Like most conflicts, the solutions that will likely best suit humanity in the long run will probably least satisfy both the producers and consumers of this stuff. Both will likely see the resolution as the end of the world! Whether you are a producer or a consumer, be prepared to be outraged!
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