Ortmann was sentenced to 2 years and 7 months while van der Kolk was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months. Each had faced a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison but argued they should be allowed to serve their sentences in home detention.

Does the punishment fit the "crime"?

[–] deathmetal@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All of the people who need to be in jail to protect us from them seem to never go, and they are busy busting people like these guys and Ross Ulbricht who were actually advancing use of technology.

[–] travis@lemmy.blue 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What's worse:

Meanwhile Kim Dotcom, the founder of Megaupload, is continuing to fight the U.S. charges and threat of extradition. He has said he expects his former colleagues to testify against him as part of the deal they struck.

[–] deathmetal@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 year ago

I find it very dubious to conflate running a hosting service with piracy, even if piracy was all over it.

[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Well, that's something he certainly knows a lot about, as he did the same way back when.

[–] EuphoricPenguin22@normalcity.life 14 points 1 year ago

Considering copyright shouldn't exist, then obviously not. These people did nothing but copy data that happened to be censored by "property laws" that are based on a flawed definition of what people can actually own.