For starters, it's not even clear if this constitutes theft or just a clever hack in a system that originally claimed "code = law". IIRC, the DAO hacker anonymo

For starters, it's not even clear if this constitutes theft or just a clever hack in a system that originally claimed "code = law". IIRC, the DAO hacker anonymously published a statement claiming that all the ETH was rightfully his, and any attempts to do otherwise would be met with lawyers.