18 months in prison for taking a picture of an iPad

Workers Behind iPad 2 Leak Sentenced To Prison, Chandrakant 'ck' IS, 6 16 2011

Apparently a workers at a FoxConn factory sold some iPad 2 'image data' to another company, so that it could start making 'protective cases' before the official ipad2 release.

For this crime, the punishment is 18 months in prison. And a fine worth about 100 months salary.

Eighteen months.

Is this what they meant when they said "Apple Macintosh will make sure that 1984 isn't like 1984?"

Didn't Steve Jobs get his start by selling illegal phone hacking equipment, (blueboxes?)

Didn't the Macintosh grow because Jobs took a tour of Xerox PARC, then basically copied what he saw there?

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