Illegal means against the law or against the rules. A crime is a function of how severe your illegal action is.

Put it another way, people think if something is illegal, punishment for that must be a felony or something. But often times, it’s just an infraction so punishment is at most a fine or a minor action like getting kicked off the free beach

> Put it another way, people think if something is illegal, punishment for that must be a felony or something

I can't imagine that anybody thinks that. We're all familiar with parking tickets, for example.

many people do think that since they make a big deal out of Airbnb and Uber doing something illegal - not realizing that the illegality of what they did is equivalent to getting a parking ticket.