I know this is a joke but it's still a felony, for your own sake don't do this.

Serious question: how is it a felony?

Distributing it might count as copyright piracy, but merely downloading public data?

The federal government outlaws "knowingly accessing a computer without authorization or exceeding authorized access" to obtain information from any "protected computer" (which, in this context, means any computer involved in interstate commerce - which, in practice, has been ruled such that it certainly includes any Internet-connected server of a corporation).

Your defense would have to be that you were authorized to access the data, or that you did not know that you weren't authorized to access the data. Not merely that the data was easily accessible.

I suppose you might be able to argue that everyone is authorized to view the data if they made no attempt whatsoever to prevent you from doing so.

Just because company failed to limit access does not mean it is public data. Just like stuff not being screwed or glued down doesn't mean you are free to take it.

It’s not public data. Just because it is unintentionally publicly available does not make it public data, except in the strictest, most pedantic interpretation (that would never hold up in front of a judge).

the prison time might be the best part of reading through 180k meeting transcripts