Remember, Clinton threatened sanctions against China, not for human rights violations, but for bootleg CDs. There's another reason that intellectual property is evil. Suppose the inventor of the typewriter took out a patent on the keyboard. You'd have as many keyboard layouts as you have companies. People wouldn't be able to move from one machine to another without relearning the typing process on a new keyboard.
Someone comes up with an improvement on the old keyboard.
They electrify it, or attach it to a computer. Whoops, no good, gotta switch the letters around again. The simple answer is NO ONE deserves to get paid for their efforts. We should do things for results, not pay. Given our social system, however, people NEED to get paid for their efforts.