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Us: *commits CFAA felony*

Them: Hacking? 10 years prison!

Us: Hey, you just confessed you committed a CFAA felony!

Them: AI is obviously dangerous and uncontrollable, but venture capital is drying up! IPO incoming! Give us all your retirement fund money!

Kinda like how if I break some plates at a restaurant I have to pay for it, but if Tony Soprano breaks them the restaurant pays him.

Protection is a heck of a business model, if you can get away with it.