Actual hacking into a network with intent should be on the order of breaking-and-entering, not robbing a bank, murder, or committing acts of terrorism. Hacking to rob a bank should be the same as robbing a bank. Hacking to intentionally poison a water supply is something like terrorism.

Cracking, gnireenigne copy-protection, copying a publicly-/privately-available archive of information, etc. should be "speeding tickets" not 50 years in pound-me-in-the-ass federal pen.

Hacking should be seen as an amoral means to commit another act, not a specific criminal, malicious activity in-and-of-itself.