Stealing physical goods was a crappy comparison in the GP and you didn't improve it a tiny wee bit. The company hasn't lost anything, while both examples talk

Stealing physical goods was a crappy comparison in the GP and you didn't improve it a tiny wee bit. The company hasn't lost anything, while both examples talk about 'taking away' and 'you want it back?'. This is the standard copy != theft analogy failure. Note that I do understand that the company (and people affected as customers) wouldn't want him to keep a backup of whatever data he copied. Still, please don't compare it to theft, robbery or whatever.