I'm sort of surprised that no one has even proposed a hardfork to recover those coins— esp. in light of mtgox somehow losing most of their customer's coins. 
... Huh. Knowing this was accidental, is there any moral obligation to recover lost funds through a hard fork, especially considering the now-victims weren't even the people who "directly" lost it?Like... some guy accidentally drops $1.7M down a near-bottomless pit, and at the bottom of the pit are some kind of human-controlled robot miners who could bring it up with just a bit of fuss - should the controllers order the robots to bring the money up, or should it just sit there for all eternity because - hey, I'm not the idiot who dropped $1.7m down a pit?
This is a pretty unique situation... almost like we can "print" away the debt - except the coins were always there, just lost.
