Getting in the way of powerful people getting more power is always punished more harshly than anything else, including murder.
In this case, he annoyed powerful IP owners, and those people in our current society are as powerful as they get.
In this case, he annoyed powerful IP owners, and those people in our current society are as powerful as they get.
That's 2 orders of magnitude up the resources invested.
And not even for stealing in the case of Mega, but for assumed money people would have paid to IP owners if the service hadn't existed. Which is a premise pirates have been debunking for years.
When I used mega, I didn't have the money for the content. Today I pay for netflix and steam games.
This is not about justice, this is about power.