By the way, if by some miracle i can crack a password for the wallet, what are my legal claims on the bitcoins inside it? Technically i could claim that it was my wallet all along that i had forgotten, but what if someone else who has the actual private key would make a legal claim to get them back and saw this as a hackers stealing their wallets?
So i guess what i am saying is that do the owners of these wallets even know that they are circulating around the internet?
If You crack the password You are also the owner of the pkey, the rules are simple, who has the pkey is the owner of the coins, it is Your responsibility to keep Your coins safe and not accessible by anyone but You.