To business, losing any money is a criminal offense.
To a business, losing money is the ONLY criminal offense.
That's just the way it goes when you have an intersection of tort law and criminal law. These problems, if they're problems at all, should be problems that civil courts handle in an effort to root out damages. It's how things used to be before the DMCA and even though it was far from a perfect system it still made more sense. You can't rape a company. You can't violate a company's civil rights. The only damage you can do to a corporate entity is monetary in nature, and crimes against that company should be measured and prosecuted as such.
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Never ask two questions in a business letter. The reply will discuss the one you are least interested, and say nothing about the other.