More Wisdom on Intellectual Monopolies

Good to see that I don't have a, er, monopoly on outraged posts about intellectual monopolies:

This is why the idea of Intellectual Property is utter nonsense. We cannot purge our minds of what we already know. That which we can perceive with the senses cannot, and should not, be controlled, but the Intellectual Monopolists plainly think it should. Orwell's predictions have turned out to be startlingly accurate.