Erik, I think the OP was being somewhat tongue in cheek

When stealing may be the issue, I choose to err on the side of caution.

Nevertheless, if the OP is not intent on stealing, whomever else may have such intent now has the recipe.

You have 2 groups of thieves:
1) the amateurs which this help.
I have seen, I do not know how many, "I can do this cheaper" offers and all have had some element of theft in them. Such products are typically low volume and thus there is no money to sue the thief.

2) the real professionals who already know this and against whom there is no defense.
The cost of "professionl" code grabbing methods is so that it will only be applied in high volume cases, so the money for a lawsuit should be there.

Erik

I recall an incident: I was working at company A and made a font. We released the font and found that the letter 'K' was missing a dot, but a very insignifican one, so we let it ride. Lo and behold, when the competition, company B, came out with the same font, their version missed the exact same dot.