Actually, reading up on this: http://www.nss.org/settlement/nasa/spaceresvol4/spacelaw.html http://www.nss.org/settlement/nasa/spaceresvol4/spacelaw.htm... sho

Actually, reading up on this: http://www.nss.org/settlement/nasa/spaceresvol4/spacelaw.html http://www.nss.org/settlement/nasa/spaceresvol4/spacelaw.htm... shows that if you mine it, you own the ore but not the site. Although you are right that as long as there's no 'space police' there isn't really a way to effectively enforce policy.