> Yes, and he should not have done it. Yet it is a worse thing to
> fear the consequences of a wrong. Better to face them. Why?
> Because we learn that way. 

It was illegal.  Was it wrong?  The two are not always the same.

I would elect that he suffer knowing that idiots had open networks rather
than that he suffer persecution by a justice system that doesn't understand
the problem in the first place.