Only if you know nothing about copyrights and intellectual property laws. First, there was NO theft. Copyright isn't about theft, no matter how the media likes

Only if you know nothing about copyrights and intellectual property laws. First, there was NO theft. Copyright isn't about theft, no matter how the media likes to portray it, what matters is the law. License violation. Not theft. Not stealing. Violating license. Further, > He went to a website, not under CERNs jurisdiction and downloaded a cracked copy of the software Has absolutely no bearing on the license violation. None whatsoever. No theft, no "illegal downloading" (whatever that means), especially in the world's saner jurisdictions where reverse engineering and/or cracked software by itself is NOT illegal. It doesn't matter where he got the copy, because a copyright license has nothing to do with obtaining or possession. So it can't be theft. Copyright license only covers WHAT you can do with a piece of intellectual property. CERN has a site-license. If the student had downloaded the cracked software, from anywhere, but used it only on-site: No problem. Covered under the license. Bonus: no dongle required. > It really is that simple. It's not actually that complicated to stick to the legal facts either.