[purple-again]

Try that with money accidentally put into your bank account.

You can keep repeating it over your shoulder to the judge as you are marched to prison for theft if you take it and can’t replace it.

Try that with a piece of mail that was sent to your house on accident. It’s a federal crime to open that envelope. The law doesn’t care that it was delivered to you.

Try removing the DRM from your DVD and making a copy of ‘your data’ on the disk you bought. A federal crime has been committed.

In this instance I would guess no laws are broken because no one powerful enough to make it illega has cared enough about the tiny fraction of people able to get around their tricks yet.

[h2onock]

I think you're sort of comparing chalk with cheese there. I see what you're saying to a point but we're talking about a bit of text on a web page that's in the public domain, not money or copyrighted media. Last time I checked, it's legal to make a copy for personal use anyway isn't it? If I bought a DVD and wanted to convert it for playback on my iPad I'm pretty sure I wouldn't go to jail for it.