There is always debate over the extent of &quot;free&quot;. At the extreme, the state doesn&#x27;t enforce land property and the landlord is responsible for hiring an army to protect some land.<p>In a more moderate situation land and property are organized and enforced by the state, because this protection is more efficient for everyone.<p>Intellectual property is incredibly hard to enforce, because anyone can copy an idea, or bits on a hard drive, so you&#x27;ll have to come up with convoluted solutions to check for the presence of information at every point in a network, and we&#x27;re expecting citizen to pay taxes to pay the police force who will enforce those rights in favour of the owners.<p>There are other, more efficient means, but they involve the richest to get a smaller cut (e.g. instead of the state enforcing DRMs for free, they have to pay for good DRM themselves), so it&#x27;s very valuable for them to leverage the state to enforce their self-proclaimed rights.