( CNN ) -- How about a world where we have murderers but no murders ? The police still chase down criminals who commit murder , we have trials , juries who judge , and justice is handed out . . . but no one dies . With many forms of cybercrime and hacking , we can just decide , as a society , to take away much of the damage before it happens . Imagine if the hackers had stolen intimate pictures from Jennifer Lawrence , and we all just agreed that , `` She did n't want us to see these pictures , so we 're not going to look . '' We do n't have a right to her body . If you were over at Jennifer 's house , and she left the room to get you a shortbread cookie and cup of decaffeinated tea ( this is my fantasy ) , you would n't take that opportunity to search for nude pictures on her computer . If she wanted to change her shirt before you went out to see Dylan together ( still my fantasy ) , and she asked you to turn her back while she did that , even if you were a bit tempted to peek , you would n't . You 're a good person and you would respect her wishes . If you were visiting Amy Pascal , and she left the room to get . . . um , let 's say a nice fig-filled cookie and some hot chocolate , I do n't think you would open up her computer and read her company emails to see if you could find something that you could use against her . You just would n't do that . I do n't even want to know what people are saying behind my back about me , let alone about someone else . If you follow that same morality , if you simply think that people have a right to privacy and that you do n't want to see what people do n't want you to see , well , there would still be hacking crimes ... but the victims would suffer less . I 've been seriously blackmailed . I 've had all the information on my computer fall into the criminal hands and the criminal ask for money to not publish that information . Yup , there were sex pictures of me and somehow my criminal thought that me naked was as valuable as Jennifer Lawrence naked . My criminal was a f -- -- -g idiot . There was nothing on my drive that would have really done any damage to my career . It really would n't have even embarrassed me that much , but I was still freaked by a bad guy looking at my stuff . My criminal was busted and stopped and the information never got out , but it was still yucky . Jennifer Lawrence and Sony are all going to feel violated and the crime is still real , but we , as a society , can make much of the damage go away . We do n't need reporters to team up with the criminals to help them do the damage . The crime is newsworthy , but not the content . It is not our right to see pictures and emails that the owners did n't want us to see . We have no right to stolen goods . Even if someone else stole it first , stealing is still wrong . We ca n't stop any damage a murder causes just by not reporting it and not looking , but we can do that with hacking . Let 's do that . If someone does n't want us to see something , let 's not look . Let 's not help criminals . The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Penn Jillette .
Miss ##y : Hacking is a crime that is enabled when we invade others ' privacy . If we do n't look at nude photos of Jennifer Lopez or Sony ##a , crime is committed , he says . Jillette : I ' ve been hacked but my information was n't made public .