It's not entitlement to want to play the games I paid money for without my computer getting owned. This is basic respect, not some insane notion. Why are game companies entitled to complete control over our computers?

It depends on if you're talking about single player or multiplayer. Notably EAC and battleye are both only really used on multiplayer based games. Cheating on those games isn't "exercising your rights" because you aren't entitled to ruining others experience. Multiplayer is more than a simple "buy and own everything inside" experience because you are buying the ability to use their servers according to their rules and TOS. I support requiring the ability to run your own server without anticheat and full ownership and ability on those but you don't have the right to abuse multiplayer services just because you bought a license to play it.

Then don't give these companies your business. I certainly don't. There are enough games that don't pull this kind of shit to keep me entertained.

True. Nowadays I play single player games because of this. I simply can't trust these companies. The situation should never have gotten to this point.

Sometimes the malware is not disclosed and a game may start to use a malware after you bought it.