"I'm thinking if you break the law you must know there will be consequences
if caught"

Several things here:

First: is there equal prosecution of the law?  Were other people who
committed the same or similar crimes prosecuted as doggedly?  If I were
guessing, I'd say no.  The zealousness would based on who the defendent's
relatives and lawyers were.

Second: according to the article, the law is a Frankenstein monstrosity,
created before the internet become a common tool.  It has provisions that
contradict itself.  How can such a law be prosecuted fairly?

Third:  The claim that journal articles written about research funded by
federal dollars being public domain is a strong argument.  Should it have
been considered?

J
---
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater
evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder. -
Frederic Bastiat


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