Ok... could this just be a case of smart aggressive computing and not hacking?

What if...
You go to a page on your own assigned account and it has a link to your application results page. This opens another window which is nicely formatted with but in the center it says "Your Results have not been posted. Please check again." For whatever reason, you look at the script for that window. It says blah blah blah if x then display https://somewhere/results.doc else display https://somewhere/notyet.doc. If I cut and paste, I can see what is in results.doc.

Is this hacking? Is stopping this sort of thing by punishing this as an 'unethical breach' something we should stand up against?

Just yesterday someone on another forum asked about a problem accessing a Country Music Videos on CMT.com, he had the 'required' software and setup, but the window popped up saying 'we don't support you'. But a simple cut and paste from window that otherwise looked complete, showed the video in the same player as was requested. Now they might argue that they lost revenue because their script counts us as a viewer, or maybe adds a pop under, or otherwise does something they deem necessary to offer the content. Fair enough. But if I register and am willing to accept all that by clicking on the link and it didn't work for me, am I ethically obligated walk away? Am I an "evil unethical hacker" if I see the content?