Generally speaking, I totally agree with
@flynnibus -- Disney wants to avoid being the big bad prosecutor of the little guy.
But in this case, Spikes is not at all a sympathetic character -- he's an
adult (not a kid) from a
well-off family who
broke his employer's rules, got himself
fired, started a well-documented and
juvenile vendetta with the company online, and to top it all of
stole and
sold Disney's property.
What about any of that is sympathetic? And I think it's easy to capture these facts in short soundbites like on Twitter. In this case, I think it would look like Disney following through -- a great example for other losers out there to see. This doesn't speak to what Disney WILL actually choose to do -- just that I think it would be justified (and could EASILY be portrayed as such on social media, etc. -- that they should go after him 100%.