You can break laws. You just have to realistically estimate the risk. The chance is low, but the impact is high. Maybe you set up an LLC just in case, or you act from the shadows like "Anna"
The government's traditionally very weaponized. I'd err on the side of overestimating risk unless you're certain about the legalities. Your life could be ruined. Most things that are worth doing could ruin your life. You could die in a car crash too. You have to choose which risks to take.
> ... but the impact is high.
Wow. I kind of regret the effort supplying supporting facts and reasoning demonstrating the impact is almost invariably zero or negligible.
> Most things that are worth doing could ruin your life. You could die in a car crash too.
So... you agree?
> You have to choose which risks to take.
And you have to choose which concerns to troll. Maybe consider the potential unintended harm you may cause of stopping something worth doing before evoking the specter of a scary-sounding consequence. A consequence which is, in reality, very nearly always harmless (in the non-profit, preservation with reasonable prior search scenario) as well as vanishingly unlikely to happen at all.
After Samourai, Tornado Cash, and so on, I'm not trusting anyone to tell me the possible impact of breaking a law is low. The government has repeatedly demonstrated that it's willing to apply the maximum penalty it can to anyone it hates, laws be damned.