So, hypothetically speaking, you wouldn't mind if I broke into your house, duplicated every bit of data on your computer, and put everything not copyrighted by another company onto the internet for everyone to see?

Nobody said I would or wouldn't mind this, I just said it's not stealing. It's "looking".

But anyway, feel free to go ahead with your plan. But it might be a waste of your time; the bits on my hard drive are already public: http://github.com/jrockway/.

(not trying to start a fight, just pointing out) note that my point implies all private communication as well. Cookies, email, chat transcripts.

The analogy is more accurate if you were to say that someone took a sample of your DNA and used it to create an army of yous.

How so? I didn't create my DNA. I did create a lot of the info on my hard drive, though. Including source code.