Are you willing to denounce each and every Chinese company for equal amounts of IP theft as well then?

They already are? When an American company does it no one cares but when a Chinese company does it, it's shamed publicly in America as a distillation attack?

Only any who hypocritically want protection for their own models (are there any?). The morality of scraping everyone is arguable; it's when you object to being scraped back that you reveal yourself as a scoundrel.

Yes. Two wrongs do not make a right.

Nope, because I think releasing open weights is far more important and realistic than ever expecting the big American AI labs to change how they do things.