I always saw intellectual property rights as a hack to try and encourage the production of non-rivalrous goods. The scarcity is in some sense enforced and artificial, and there&#x27;s a strong argument to be made that they aren&#x27;t they aren&#x27;t &quot;natural&quot; property rights in the same sense as you get with rivalrous goods.<p>I think pro-capitalist (mostly libertarian) thought on this matter is divided.