They hacked the other company (one crime) and infringed the copyright of the other company (second crime). But I think you've got a couple of holes in your sim

They hacked the other company (one crime) and infringed the copyright of the other company (second crime). But I think you've got a couple of holes in your simile. Source code is a much more powerful thing to have than the final product. I can't remember a time where a movie's entire set of footage and effects assets were leaked/stolen, and the equivalent of a movie being leaked is compiled binaries being leaked, and that happens all the time. I'd also judge selling an illegally copied thing to be a worse offense than giving away an illegally copied thing. > Certainly company B let company A keep its source code, but by copying the source code it did not let company A keep its way of earning money. And yet, companies still make software, movies, music. I'd be more worried if those businesses were made non-viable due to copyright infringement losses and more sympathetic if I thought something copyrighted today would exit copyright within my lifetime.