This is crazy, especially in California, where jails are completely overpopulated (the jail currently holding Hans Reiser is designed for ~1700 people and currently has ~3400).
Agree with ujjwalg - sending someone to jail for that is crazy.
The point of jail is to physically stop someone from hurting other people. As in with fists or knives or guns. It's to stop violence. It is not to redress perceived economic or copyright infringements.
Are they serious?! You're going to take a human being, a fellow countryman (and a technically skilled one!) and actually forcibly confine him to a cage, because he circumvented the copy protection on a video game?!
What kind of crazy society is this, anyway. Welcome to the Twilight Zone.
Using your rationale, then Bernie Madoff should not be in prison, either.
I agree this person should not go to the prison, but I think your classification is too simple. Madoff hurt people - not physically, but financially. And the harm he caused was more devastating than if he had administered a physical beating.
Agree with ujjwalg - sending someone to jail for that is crazy.
The point of jail is to physically stop someone from hurting other people. As in with fists or knives or guns. It's to stop violence. It is not to redress perceived economic or copyright infringements.
Are they serious?! You're going to take a human being, a fellow countryman (and a technically skilled one!) and actually forcibly confine him to a cage, because he circumvented the copy protection on a video game?!
What kind of crazy society is this, anyway. Welcome to the Twilight Zone.