1. He did it non-anonymously as a form of activism, which seems like an obvious bias toward martyrdom. An argument can be made that he chose fame over effectiveness, just like Assange did.

2. We don’t know if he would have gotten away with it or not. Mental illness killed him via suicide, not the federal indictment.

There are several EXTREMELY large pirate libraries in operation presently that anyone can use. They are actively getting away with it, likely because they are explicitly staying anonymous.