Crime makes no sense
"If you get caught using that" makes no sense, when you think about it.
How does 'The Matrix', the servers and the CPUs, the main A.I. that runs the whole thing, NOT know exactly what goes on inside of its program/simulation?
I mean, 'The Matrix' is EVERYwhere, meaning this computer software is what enables everything, makes everything happen, lets things happen and so on. Everything happens within the rules of the system.
This means the system, just like your Commodore 64, knows EXACTLY what goes on and where it goes on - when you think of playing 'Wizard of Wor', your C64 knows where your character is, whether you are firing or walking or teleporting at all times. You can't make the character hide from it.
This means, 'getting caught' is something that should be able to happen every single time.
In this kind of virtual reality, there CAN'T BE UNSOLVED CRIMES. There can't be mysteries. There can't be UFOs, and so on. The Matrix knows and sees all, because, as Morpheus says, it is EVERYWHERE.
The Matrix is the omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent GOD-reality that you can't hide from. This means, it's impossible for crime to even exist, because every criminal should get caught instantly and immediately. Neo giving some disk to someone and tells them IF you get caught... how can this 'IF' exist, when The Matrix knows everything about everything, including Neo, the disk, the user of the disk, when and how and where they are using it and so on. It could prevent, interrupt, intercept the 'usage' of the disk at any point, it could send any cops/agents/whatever to the user's location at ANY point and so on and so forth.
If 'The Matrix' was designed to 'realistic 1999', why would that HAVE to include criminals and all that corruption? Isn't the misery of the 1999 world enough by itself, do the toxic and corrupt, demonic elements have to be included? I think NOT!
This means, crime even existing in this simulation makes no sense.
(This is just one of MANY things that exist in our world that would have to exist in the simulation, but would make absolutely no sense to include in a simulation like that, ESPECIALLY with the stupid 'battery' explanation..)