&gt; You can&#x27;t say that it was wilful civil disobedience and then say that he went about it the wrong way, you contradict yourself as that&#x27;s kind of the definition of civil disobedience.<p>I didn&#x27;t mean &quot;morally&quot; wrong, I mean wrong approach. That&#x27;s not contradictory at all; civil disobedience is not always the correct way to go about change.  Sometimes it is, like when its done en-masse; going it alone, wrong approach.<p>&gt; And it&#x27;s not theft<p>Fine, infringing their data, irrelevant to the conversation; a crime no matter what label you want to apply.<p>The right approach is to lobby to get the law changed, not break it by yourself and hope you don&#x27;t get hammered.