Your mistake is that you belive that (1) the law is not clear and (2) these poor companies end up with these crazy solutions because the law is unclear. The th

Your mistake is that you belive that (1) the law is not clear and (2) these poor companies end up with these crazy solutions because the law is unclear. The thing is that the _intent_ of the law is very clear. You could search for loopholes and come up with all kinds of creative solutions to go around it, but then you can't pretend it is a decision you made in good fate.