"the high cost of pursuing IT Protect may raise eyebrows among fans of strong enforcement."
It's almost as if having a robust legal system that doesn't just allow the government to crush you into pieces without due process costs time and money.
Note that if the director had paid the fine properly then no problem. But he didn't, and got apparently really bad (or no) legal advice. "I didn't pay the fine because I didn't like it" isn't going to work.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
