Sure, the legal issue can be related to a real life ham. It is, I think, trivial on the whole. It's especially trivial of you consider the way these things are

Sure, the legal issue can be related to a real life ham. It is, I think, trivial on the whole. It's especially trivial of you consider the way these things are generally "righted." (1) Google will clarify and establish their right to do whatever it is they're doing. Rarely will the result be google changing. (2) The do-whatever-then-ask-forgiveness mo may actually be reenforced. Google actually lost their EU antitrust case. It was about adwords, the google moneymaker. If Google had known in advance they would be found guilty and fined $1.4bn, they would have certainly done it anyway. (3) Whatever harm is acknowledged here will not be acknowledged as what it is, a part of the larger issue of google's abuse of power. Sipping data is the least of it.