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A copy is not theft.
Intellectual property is thought monopoly. See Disco Elysium for a particularly sad case of it.
Do you mean play disco Elysium or is there some drama associated with it?
Drama. A business partner of the creators used an illegal loophole to obtain a majority stake of the company and then fired the actual creators because they where considered to volatile.
The universe of Disco Elysium is Kurvitz paracosm which he has been creating since his teens. Its a part of their identity that they are now barred from expressing.
Its a bit like if you told Tolkien halfway trough writing lotr that he is fired as the author and can never write anything about middle earth again.
intellectual property is grotesque.
under no circumstances a creator should be barred from his creation.
if shit like that happens I'd rather there not be any intellectual property at all