Because I'm not in the corporate espionage world, I imagine I'd feel just a bit different than he does. He played the game, now he appears to be losing it -- massively different than your hypothetical (and ridiculous) situation of losing without ever playing, isn't it?

I have a hard time seeing this as Nokia "destroying [his] life", or feeling the sympathy you seem to.

Y'know, it's not like an ordinary guy just going about his business is suddenly entangled in Nokia's leaks for no reason. He sought out information and prototypes/access to prototypes, knowing that he was likely violating trade secret laws, and encouraging others (i.e. his Nokia contact(s)) to violate trade secret laws; one can only assume he knew the risks.

It's not (AFAIK) like Nokia is changing the laws, or that he was in any way prevented from knowing them when he started out, so it seems like he knew the rules, and decided to play anyway. In that context, I just can't see how Nokia "doing it lawfully" can be anything but fair; he gambled, knowing the odds, and lost.

And I love how you take Nokia's assertions as nothing, and his "official statement" as absolute truth.