[notahacker]

I agree, creating malicious software designed to seriously inconvenience people and demand money from them is not a good idea. Never mind being sued, creating and distributing viruses is a felony in most jurisdictions even if it doesn't look like extortion. But on a scale of bad ideas, ransomware that appears to reward you for ignoring it is still a slightly less bad way of encouraging people to ignore ransom demands than ransomware that just punishes everyone