Can someone clarify something for me? As I am no American, I try to understand, if making public the email-addresses of the iPad-owners was anything remotely il

Can someone clarify something for me? As I am no American, I try to understand, if making public the email-addresses of the iPad-owners was anything remotely illegal (AT&T wise). If so, why didn't weev just show law-enforcement - maybe with press present? Why not stage it so, that it is a deal between you and a press-outlet, a live showing of the problem, with a DA (or police/FBI, what ever) present? I know, it only works, if the API, making personal-email-addresses public was illegal. But if so, he would have shamed AT&T, he would have "normal" people caring, not only the internet-bubble and he would be relatively save in terms of legality. Or wouldn't he?