"I can sue them to get paid for making money on my work without my permission and without offering me a cut", or can it mean also "I can sue them for just using my work without permission"?You're referring to the definition of "publication" in the US copyright statutes, correct? Does displaying a work for zero consideration comprise publication? What if the work itself relies on quotations attributed to others / logs lifted from a "commercial" forum without those Copyright Holders' permission? ;-)
IMHO the best policy is that you cannot operate in secrecy in 2007 if you've used the Send button- or probably at all if you've let the information out of your sight. This isn't particularly new: Benjamin Franklin once said that "three may keep a secret if two of them are dead." ;-) Even if you can assert Copyright after the event, that's an "own goal" if the information you're trying to keep secret becomes the primary exhibit.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1