Who knows why they didn't plant a mole, steal a playbook, bug a locker room or even payoff the GoodYear blimp camera man to zoom in a little tighter? All that doesn't matter. What matters is that Belichek cheated as much as he felt he needed to insure the Patriots winning.
Oh, yes... and he got caught.
I think Hemingway’s Ghost has been drunk since Feb 7th.
If, in your line of reasoning, any infraction of the NFL rulebook whatsoever constitutes cheating, then yes, by your reasoning, the Patriots "cheated." You seem to think this cheating---as you call it---or rule-breaking---as I call it---constitutes a material breach in the integrity of the game of football, a claim which I say is downright ludicrous, given that---as I and others on this thread have said---if the camera were merely placed in the front row of the stands, instead of the sidelines, what they did would not have been against the rules at all. I can only assume that you root for another team, and your team can't beat the Patriots on the field, so you have to elevate this situation into something it's not. You cling to it; it gives you hope that your team might actually win a game versus the Patriots.