The main idea here is that prohibiting payouts might make the crime less frequent. That’s somehow reasonable given the relative low stakes involved—from a moral

The main idea here is that prohibiting payouts might make the crime less frequent. That’s somehow reasonable given the relative low stakes involved—from a moral perspective, data is usually of a lesser value than human lives. Therefore, yes, those cases are very different indeed. For once, kidnapping a human being is already punishable enough by itself so it makes no sense to punish a payout that could actually save a live.