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They were publicly available, without credentials, if you knew how to get to them.
The luggage analogy sucks. A better analogy is someone taking a stack of paperwork and putting it behind a chair in a coffee shop. You can't see the papers and don't know they are there unless someone tells you about them. The papers aren't intended for public consumption but they're being stored in a publicly available space.
Why are you acting like I don't agree with you on this? You can read my other comments in here and see that I do.
He apparently accessed a system with credentials that he wasn't authorized to use and that's a crime. What may not be a crime is downloading the videos. If those were available to the public, no matter how obscured, without needing credentials to access them then they were in fact publicly available.
It's two separate actions and one is likely criminal while the other may not be.
I don't give a shit about Kanye and I addressed Burke in a previous comment.
In your example, the papers are probably mislaid property, not abandoned property. Taking them would still be a crime, but somebody stumbling on them, there probably wouldn’t be any crime in reading them (similar to opening a lost wallet to pull the driver’s license. Now, if they contacted the owner, and they said “keep it” or something, or if they couldn’t identify the owner, that’s different, but didn’t happen here)
Unlike the luggage, which wasn’t misslaid- the files were where they were supposed to be.
As for accessing the files, that becomes a crime because he had to use knowledge taken from the prior crime. It doesn’t matter if your car is parked in a public lot; I steal your proximity keys (the URLs), that’s a crime. The car letting me in doesn’t suddenly make driving the car off not a crime.
There was no reasonable means of getting those files without first figuring out what urls they were at, and he knew that. He’s not some kid plugging in random URLs and stumbling in.