There is no law that is broken !!! Please specify me the law or the court order that is saying that the Black Hat methods are illegal. There are just some rules established by a private company in his own interest.The only problem is that the rules are made by a private company - not by an entity. The lack of such an entity is giving to Google the power to decide the rules of the games where there is no impartial referee. This is why SEO (Black Hat especially) is penalized by Google, because is breaking his own rules but that doesn't means that should apply to all over the world. Google is just a simple company that succeed to get the big part of the searching engines - they can't control and dictate their rules unless their the owner of the Internet - last time when I've checked there was NONE.So from my point of view - Google, Bing and Yahoo can do what they want - I'll keep to make Black Hat, White Hat and Indexing as long as I'll be capable - when I'll not be capable I'll start my small pancake business