Honestly I have absolutely no faith in any sort of change coming to the system in-channel. I think we should focus our efforts on developing systems that allow the population to circumvent and would make prosecution prohibitively expensive.

In the future, in any likely reality that I can foresee, the laws are going to remain more or less the same and prosecutors are going to still be using scorched earth tactics. To change the system you need lawyers, but lawyers have a love-affair with the system and knee-jerk in defense of one-another. Ethics and the law are too intertwined for them, any effort to change the system to be more ethical will only continue to be met with cries of "But it's already legal!". I've seen it dozens of times today, and I don't see any light at the end of that tunnel.

If others are going to follow in Aaron's footsteps, they will have to make one particular change: be better at remaining unidentified.