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All of you are ignoring a simple rule of law, that it is illegal -- the equivalent of wiretapping -- to decrypt someone elses communication without their knowledge or permission. Anyone with skill or resources could intercept and decrypt all kinds of communication -- over the airwaves or over the internet. Making this illegal makes commerce possible. There is no chance that this will change.

Not to mention that stealing is stealing, regardless of how pretty you paint its face.

Anyone with skill or resources could intercept and decrypt all kinds of communication

What you know about encryption could apperently fit in a thimble. Even the most garden-variety SSH packet flow is secure against anyone with "resources" short of the NSA's.

Any commercial venture that fails to use strong encryption gets what it deserves.

Laws that criminalize cracking lame encryption criminalize behavior that can only be detected by intrusive means. That's the downside: Are you ready to make your PC an open book to be inspected by anyone with a claim that their encrypted content might have been cracked on your PC?