You where excluded from the stake for the hive fork, the only way to do it was transferring your tokens on the very fork code, that's it...
It doesn't matter if its called an "air drop" or whatever, hive is a new blockchain and no one owned hive token before, and no one had any rights to the new tokens... Whoever did the hardfork can do with the code what they please and call it how they like... You can do your own hardfork yourself and take the whole tokens to yourself if that please you...
Now, taking the tokens from an existing blockchain is stealing, people invested and bought steem with their own hard earned money, it is not the same... Its revenge, and its low... It shows that there is no freedom on steem blockchain...