You can argue whether or not this release is good or bad, right or wrong, however semantics are somewhat important. Would you say that learning something while

You can argue whether or not this release is good or bad, right or wrong, however semantics are somewhat important. Would you say that learning something while reading a book in a bookstore is stealing? How do you propose to return stolen information? Even if wikileaks physically returned whatever they physically received, but made a copy for their own purposes, is that still stealing? There are laws that apply to information, such as copyright, but this information is not protected by copyright. I read somewhere that there was no classified information in this release, so it also wouldn't be protected by those laws. For me, the 2 main questions are: 1) is it legal (yes) 2) will it do more good than harm? (unknown)