Dirty tricks and clandestine moves begins the new world of online spying

Here's a good question brought up by Kit Eaton on Fastcompany. Did Wikileaks even own the documents allegedly "stolen" by Domscheit-Berg?

Here's what he said: 

The legality of the matter is likely up in the air. Technically, WikiLeaks may never have owned the leaked documents in question, so Domscheit-Berg may not have "stolen" them. WikiLeaks has, for its part, distanced itself from him by noting he was not a high-ranking official, merely a "spokesman for WikiLeaks in Germany at various times."

That he took them from Wikileaks is a given as he addresses this in his own words. And, I quote:

Domscheit-Berg denies the allegations of sabotage, but has difficult things to say about Julian Assange: While he was "imaginative, energetic" and "brilliant" at first, he's now become "paranoid, power-hungry" and a "megalomaniac." He admits to taking a backlog of three hundred thousand leaked documents with him when he left, presumably to use them to prime OpenLeaks with fresh, controversial meat. He alleges that leaving the documents with Assange would have been "irresponsible."

In the end only time and a judge will tell. But, in the meantime it will interesting to see what Domscheit-Berg does with his ill gotten booty squared. Will, double leaked documents sell? Will they sell enough to launch another site? And, considering Wikileaks is out of the whistle blowing game for at least a couple of months while it repairs the damage done by the exit of Domscheit-Berg, will these secret documents put Openleaks ahead of it's only other competitor in the new, exciting and online web 2.0 remake of the classic cloak and dagger drama spy vs. spy.

Welcome to the new world folks. This is what it looks like. The question is will having two competing major whistle blower sites up the ante in this new competitive market to freaky standards?