The world is full of felonies that people commit almost without thinking. Did you neglect to tell the Customs inspector that you had half a leftover salami sandwich in your shoulder bag when you got off the flight from Milan? Naughty, naughty.
Some are even unavoidable: when you load a program into memory on starting it, you are (in principle) making a copy of it in violation of the EULA.
As you point out, making a felony of a trivial or even a necessary act debases both law and respect for it, as well as endangering the ethically innocent (but formally guilty).