We treat everyone equally and have no exceptions when it comes to abuse, just because some known hiveians would like their favorite users to have special treatment when they are caught with abuse and blacklisted.
This case has been treated just like thousands of other similar cases.

If you don't see a problem with someone exploiting and abusing Hive by effortlessly stealing the content of other people, so he can post it as own content to farm rewards, then there is nothing we can do to change your opinion.