“The law was changed a few weeks later to include private persons and sole traders as protected lsps, not just companies, but they had to convict me.”
Austrian police raided William Weber over traffic from a Tor exit node he ran in Poland. Austrian law shielded registered companies that pass traffic along and gave a private person nothing. Weber got five years of probation for “supporting the transfer,” the lowest charge available. A few weeks later Austria extended the same protection to people like him. The crime was running the node without a company registration.