We’ll have to wait and see if they are actually convicted of a crime.
Does it even matter? For those individuals, of course but not for Bitcoin.
What this act achieves is scaring every programmer out there from even contributing to anything privacy related since they now know the anti-privacy dictatorship can traumatize them and their families like this. Not to mention all the huge legal fees these "programmers" have to pay.
Speaking of traumatizing families and legal fees, lets not forget this is not a new thing in USA. Lest we forget arrest of
BurtW basically just because he was a bitcoin user...
To be honest with you the world leaders are afraid of cryptocurrency they feel is a way of bringing down the value of there nation's currency so for a program it is advised to run a decentralized cryptocurrency just like Bitcoin in other to be in a save side.