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Do you think that his punishment should be harsher, the same or lighter?

Harsher 95 82.61%
 
The same 16 13.91%
 
Lighter 4 3.48%
 
Total:115

He should be fined. And his Internet revoked for the equal time the networks where down. He affected, say 1000 hours. 1000 days.



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MoHasanie said:
TheLastStarFighter said:
He caused millions of dollars in damages. The punishment should be the same as if he did that destruction in any other way. 5-10 years in prison, at least.

Well he was only 16 or 17 when he comitted the crime. And he didn't do it himself, he was part of a group. 

And it did show that MS and Sony's systems weren't strong enough. It took MS a full day to fix it and Sony took a couple of days. 

In that case they should have held 50,000 consecutive max sentences over his head in order to compel him to make a deal to help find and charge his compatriots.  Serving those sentences concurrently (let's say 10 or even 5 years) would be a perfectly fair offer in exchange for taking down the rest.  But 2 years of a suspended sentence?  They may as well have not arrested him.  This pathetic display only empowers others to continue these shenanigans.



kitler53 said:
2 years prison would be fair for the amount of damage he caused. 2 years suspended prison is a fucking joke and an invitation for more attacks.


I suspect we'll be experiencing some more DDOS attacks in the near future by copy cats.



No one should ever be made into an example. Every person should be punished for precisely what they did--otherwise it's no justice system at all. I do agree that his sentence should have been harsher, however.



Yeah, this isn't finished yet:

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2015-07-08-daybreak-ceo-rages-at-hacker-on-twitter

It's important to note - he was convicted of crimes that had nothing to do YET with the PSN DDOS over Christmas (yes he was part of that)
— John Smedley (@j_smedley) July 8, 2015

and he still has 15 other criminal cases awaiting prosecution in Finland. I may go after his parents in Civil court too. Little dirtbag
— John Smedley (@j_smedley) July 8, 2015



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Scoobes said:
Yeah, this isn't finished yet:

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2015-07-08-daybreak-ceo-rages-at-hacker-on-twitter

It's important to note - he was convicted of crimes that had nothing to do YET with the PSN DDOS over Christmas (yes he was part of that)
— John Smedley (@j_smedley) July 8, 2015

and he still has 15 other criminal cases awaiting prosecution in Finland. I may go after his parents in Civil court too. Little dirtbag
— John Smedley (@j_smedley) July 8, 2015

Even though what that guy did was very wrong, as a CEO, Smeadley's comments are very unprofessional. And threatning a minor and his parents makes him look quite bad. 



    

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The punishment is missing one thing: sterilization. We don't need anymore people like him walking around.



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Should be harsher, they need to make an example.



Fucking asshole. Deserved worse imo.



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Scoobes said:
Yeah, this isn't finished yet:

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2015-07-08-daybreak-ceo-rages-at-hacker-on-twitter

It's important to note - he was convicted of crimes that had nothing to do YET with the PSN DDOS over Christmas (yes he was part of that)
— John Smedley (@j_smedley) July 8, 2015

and he still has 15 other criminal cases awaiting prosecution in Finland. I may go after his parents in Civil court too. Little dirtbag
— John Smedley (@j_smedley) July 8, 2015

Well, I hope that he goes to trial and punished for those other crimes outside of finland.