"a ridiculous expansion of IP rights - as if patents weren't enough"
Expanding patents to software, in Europe they replaced the 2005 software patent directive by the Unified Patent Court, which will ignore the exclusion of 'computer programs', like the EPO did, with no way for the question to be escalated to the CJEU:
Multinational corporations also became part time judges, because rubberstamping software patents is easier when you can also corrupt the judicial system: