Just never leave your country of citizenship. It should be easy with the current Covid-19 situation.
Looks like even the knight in shining armor Robert Mueller has dirty hands. Can’t imagine what his motivations could have been other than to do Adobe and US software makers a favor by stripping a guy of his rights for 6 months and sending a message to other programmers.
The DoJ and its prosecutors do not write the laws they enforce. While they do have some leeway in deciding to prosecute or not, a far larger part of blame lies in the place these laws originated: Congress.
Considering the man and his employer were acquitted of all charges, the prosecutor could have easily used his leeway to not prosecute. This has nothing to do with congress, the guy clearly did not break any laws.