If we're going to use IRL analogies then what's the legal penalty for repeatedly breaking&entering 3-4 different times, and then for each time he broke the lock, { trespassing more a 100,000+ times, and stealing an item of little to no cash value 100,000+ times }?

People keep acting like this was simply and only about some JSTOR articles, but this was about more than that, he was on a network that he didn't have permission to be on, and used the cloak of that network access to grab things of little to no value without permission, and he did this over a long period of time.