The answer is very, very simple once you've taken a loan out on your family home to finance the development of a product that is then stolen.

Everything is academic and sterile from almost any other perspective.

Government sponsored theft --which is what's happening in China-- is a massive destructive force. It is good in China because it brings in billions of dollars from all around the globe. That's why the Chinese government doesn't do a thing about it. They "sponsor" it do the extent that inaction becomes indistinguishable from sponsorship.