Torrenting is relevant if you copy someone's labor. Or otherwise receive value from their preexisting actions without them expending additional effort.
The issue at hand is making a contract for something/labor, using it up, and not paying. It's a totally different topic.
If it comes to pass that Crytek cannot, and knowingly could not, pay them then that's when to bandwagon. Not before it's known. That's how it plays out on HN. Guilty before proven innocent.
If you believed everything you read here the world would be a very alien place.
cperciva wrote "a company failing to pay money it doesn't have is not the same thing as stealing", and you wrote he was factually correct. How do you know if he's factually correct, if, as you admit, it's still not known if they knowingly stiffed the workers?
You're the one jumping to conclusions. All I said is that they got a bunch of free labour, which is true regardless of whether they knowingly did so or not.
The issue at hand is making a contract for something/labor, using it up, and not paying. It's a totally different topic.