> The court documents stated that on July 13 Levison sent an open letter to the assistant US attorney, offering to give email metadata (without email content, u

> The court documents stated that on July 13 Levison sent an open letter to the assistant US attorney, offering to give email metadata (without email content, usernames or passwords) to the FBI if it paid him $2,000 "to cover the cost of the development time and equipment necessary to implement my solution" and $1,500 to give data "intermittently during the collection period". So what Protonmail did wrong was to not ask for payment while handing out the metadata? Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit