The TRIPS agreement requires criminal penalties for willful copyright infringement, art. 61 (and circumvention of technical measures is in all cases I have seen

The TRIPS agreement requires criminal penalties for willful copyright infringement, art. 61 (and circumvention of technical measures is in all cases I have seen implemented as being a form of copyright infringement) when it occurs on a certain not well defined scale. TRIPS is implemented everywhere except a few muslim countries in Africa and Asia. There almost never is a minimum scale defined in actual implementations. There have been several attempts to sue people in my country, usually settled before any final judgment, for being instrumental in copyright infringement, even if that and the actual infringement occured on limited, loss-incuring scale. I live in the EU, so every web page I visit is required to be logged by ISPs for 6-24 months. Clearing cookies does nothing. I'm more than willing to bet that your law says too that circumventing technical measures is illegal and when done on purpose a criminal act. Admitting to using the privacy mode of your browser to circumvent the paywall is admitting to a crime in many jurisdictions. Sometimes with optional prison terms, otherwise fines that will eventually turn into prison time if they're not paid on time, so prison is certainly an option for using the privacy mode to access NYT. Not likely to be prosecuted, but a crime nonetheless.