[ctdonath2]

They’re still OK with it.
All the more reason to them to expand regulation & enforcement.
Whoever they get, they get - and they either get as many as possible, or come down hard. Getting upwards of 5-6 digits in fines suits them just fine, as does simply entrenching their bureaucracy.
Enough publicity about people being fined around their annual salary, and most will shy away and the drone market either normalize compliance or evaporate.

[IronJack]

They'll have to have huge infrastructure to actually collect on those 5-6 digit judgments, the few they actually CAN collect on. And the cost of capturing, adjudicating, and imprisoning thousands of people whose only offense is to possess an unregistered "toy" is overly burdensome, not to mention the cost of putting that many people out of work and unlikely to be employable because of criminal records.

Only when the people retake control of THEIR government will we begin to contain this bureaucratic leviathan. And one way to do that is through massive civil disobedience.