What makes the sentence for this case dangerous is that it may as well set a precedent that all dealings within the technological world deemed unwanted or even 'illegal', whichever chosen by the first large corporation or corporate association to jump on to this, may be sentenced to ridiculously lengthy prison-terms.
Not only is this disparate in length compared to more substantial crimes, as mentioned before, but a typical knee-jerk reaction by the techno-illiterate from one ready to be in the spotlight due to his "making an example" of someone clearly stretching internt etiquette to it's breaking point (etiquette, since never has or should the internet been or be governed by any single entity).
Punish the man, by all means, but by putting him in the same place where pedophiles, rapists, murderers, thieves, and the sort (as well as those wrongfully accused and incarcerated), are seperated from the rest of society, you insult the system of that which he would be introduced to.
Let the judge and jury decide his culpability, but also let those who are truly capable of understanding his crime sentence him.
One could take this as many things, from being an ill omen of the pervesion of justice within the digital world to come, or as a distinct symptom of technological (among others) ignorance within our society.
* pours water on the smoking keyboard due to prolonged fire-spitting
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What makes the sentence for this case dangerous is that it may as well set a precedent that all dealings within the technological world deemed unwanted or even 'illegal', whichever chosen by the first large corporation or corporate association to jump on to this, may be sentenced to ridiculously lengthy prison-terms.
Not only is this disparate in length compared to more substantial crimes, as mentioned before, but a typical knee-jerk reaction by the techno-illiterate from one ready to be in the spotlight due to his "making an example" of someone clearly stretching internt etiquette to it's breaking point (etiquette, since never has or should the internet been or be governed by any single entity).
Punish the man, by all means, but by putting him in the same place where pedophiles, rapists, murderers, thieves, and the sort (as well as those wrongfully accused and incarcerated), are seperated from the rest of society, you insult the system of that which he would be introduced to.
Let the judge and jury decide his culpability, but also let those who are truly capable of understanding his crime sentence him.
One could take this as many things, from being an ill omen of the pervesion of justice within the digital world to come, or as a distinct symptom of technological (among others) ignorance within our society.
* pours water on the smoking keyboard due to prolonged fire-spitting