Yes, I agree it’s cultural norms and so on but stealing IP is stealing the product of a lot of hard work. Imagine if you had an idea stored in a document and so

Yes, I agree it’s cultural norms and so on but stealing IP is stealing the product of a lot of hard work. Imagine if you had an idea stored in a document and someone just stole it. There’s a certain universality about theft being wrong at a gut level. Also, much of this theft involves breaking into other peoples computers. It’s wilfull violation of someone else in multiple ways. Breaking into a computer is as low as robbing a liquor store and I suspect thst everyone, even the perpetrators, feels that at a vicersl level.