Well I kind of get why he really doesn't want to be identified, because of all those copyright infringements. The moment he steps in the West, he could be arrested.

But despite this I feel like what he did was very counterproductive to this goal. If he did nothing, people would just forget about it. Wikipedia would still use his service because they don't want to deal with copyright.

Besides if western intelligence really wants to find this guy, they could probably do it without the journalist's help.