He got back to me and said there is no legal fund at this time. These people need to hire a lawyer ASAP. Their sons life is over because he wrote a for loop with wget.

  for i in `seq 1 7000`; do
    wget http://foi.example-gov-domain.gc.ca/foi-download.cgi?id=$i;
  done

Boom, you are not going to federal prison for 10 years! What a complete joke!

As an act of solidarity, we should all run it until they drop charges and fix the damn thing. They can't charge 5000 people.