Again, it's not the US: are you just trying to come up with arguments that you can keep being angry about instead of knowing, or looking up, how this law's been used?

Didn’t realize that US is the scope of the OP article.

It's not, which is my point. Criticize it on the merits of how the law's used in Ireland instead of coming up with "things that happen" that don't happen.

And you would know that this didn't happened ... how?

Between the museum, the prospector, and the government, this is a stacked prisoner dilemma game; not worth playing.