> There's little-to-no personal upside, and only horrible downside if you get caught.
Here you just mention upsides with very small chance of small downside. See the case for Anthony Levandowski which was much more serious crime as he knowingly created and sold a company with only moat being Wyamo docs and everything bad that could happen to him did happen. He spent 6 months in jail and now he rejoined as CEO in Pronto. The much more probable case is he got to enjoy $680M that Uber gave him and not have to worry about money again.
Here you just mention upsides with very small chance of small downside. See the case for Anthony Levandowski which was much more serious crime as he knowingly created and sold a company with only moat being Wyamo docs and everything bad that could happen to him did happen. He spent 6 months in jail and now he rejoined as CEO in Pronto. The much more probable case is he got to enjoy $680M that Uber gave him and not have to worry about money again.