imagine a world that had no protections on intellectual property. if someone opened a laptop and looks at it, no one cares. if you took microcode from the CPU and copied it / used it to modify your own and then released your own CPU? the manufacturer will have a lot of fun with you in court. **looking at something =/= copying something. **you can look all you want.
you need to look at things in context here. this is a game dev forum with game devs asking other game devs how to unpack other game devs work. This isn’t some random person that wants to have a look-see for fun.
“you do not get to own information. it is not your property.” you are completely wrong. You can and do own information, and in most countries, you are well within your right to sue if someone steals it, because it is yours. you own it.