To an extent you have a point, but consider the difference in amount of potential damage. I sit in at, say, a bank branch, it takes the police 24 hours (for som

To an extent you have a point, but consider the difference in amount of potential damage. I sit in at, say, a bank branch, it takes the police 24 hours (for some weird reason) to remove me. I DDoS that bank's servers, their online operations are offline for 24 hours. It's hard to argue against the idea that the digital version has, at the very least, the potential to be a lot more serious, and therefore more worthy of punishment.