It is, among most users, but it only takes a few abusing that for it to seem like there's none.

EDIT: Rereading, maybe it's that other kind of "hacker"...

> This has absolutely not ever been the case.

I think it was. Eg: on most russian warez forums in the 2000s, it was a bannable offense to crack russian-authored software.

yup there is no honor among thieves unfortunately

yes, hackers are bigger targets imo, not smaller ones