For context, Michael Lewis' Vanity Fair post-mortem on this case is worth reading -- he got a bunch of Wall Street programmers to interrogate Aleynikov to determine what a "jury" of his peers thought of his actions.<p><a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2013/09/michael-lewis-goldman-sachs-programmer" rel="nofollow">http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2013/09/michael-lewis-gol...</a><p><i>A month after ace programmer Sergey Aleynikov left Goldman Sachs, he was arrested. Exactly what he’d done neither the F.B.I., which interrogated him, nor the jury, which convicted him a year later, seemed to understand. But Goldman had accused him of stealing computer code, and the 41-year-old father of three was sentenced to eight years in federal prison. Investigating Aleynikov’s case, Michael Lewis holds a second trial.</i>