Ok you want to play smart lets play smart...
Copy - digital data transfrade by electronic pulses and then stored in a diffrent location
the storage is usally refared to a hard drive, but the law dont explain it so lets change it to "brain"
I hear a music over at my freands house, i memorise it, do i steal it? everyone will say no..
but if a day after that ill make a show and i will sing it, the next day ill recive a 10 million bill for braking copy rights.
Same as if ill hear a singer while he record a CD (before the release) and then sing it myself on my private radio station.
So as you can see, as long as the corporation dont loose an open window for a fat income, they dont mind
you can memorise it as much as you want (in other words you can copy and store it as much as you want)
that was hearing
Now sight: the demigod box, its designe, graphics, pictures, and name, are all under copy rights
the copy rights say that you are not allwed to copy it (as it is theft)
but by looking at it you infact copying it and store it in your memory
as long as it stays there no one cares
but if you go back to the music excample, like if you knew the name "demigod" before the games release
and then you released your own game with this name, and same designe, then you are accused of theft...
again, no one cares as long as the corporation didnt lost an open window for a fat income
Another fact: words and letters by themselfs are not copy righted
so if i am a games proggramer, i can tear appart the games engine
to change few things so that it will not look like demigod
then to repatch it into a whole new game and release it free online
as long as no one will think it was demigod, no one will care
on the second someone will see it in fact got too much similar code lines with demigod
then demigod developers will hunt me down and kill me not phisicly but with multi million bills...
or as i say, a legal murder by those who have money...
Ahh i could go on and on, just got tired...
bottom line, you cant beat pirace, the law is based on material (cars... other crap...)
you cant STEAL something that is not based on material (can you steal my sexual phantasy? )
you can steal colors, u cant steal lights... (unless you one of those fighting on the beach over sun)
and you cant steal digital information! you can steal a CD though
digital information is electronic impulses stored on your HD, electrons.. stored on magnetic plate...
and unless you can mark little "e" on those electrons, you cant say they are yours...