From Sophos Naked Security:
Judge overturns conviction of Goldman Sachs programmer for stealing code
In a case that illustrates just how sticky it can be to prosecute insider crime, the US Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the second criminal conviction of a former Goldman Sachs programmer who copied 32MB of what he claimed was open-source code.
Before leaving to work for a high-speed trading startup in 2009, but while he still had access to the Goldman Sachs network, Sergey Aleynikov admitted to having logged in remotely to copy a tarball - a group of files collected together as one.
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