“To provide just punishment”.
Nintendo hacker Gary Bowser – who, as part of the infamous Team Xecuter, distributed hardware and software that allowed people to run pirated games on their Switch consoles – should serve five years in jail, the US government is arguing.
The proposed sentence is found in court documents relating to Bower’s ongoing case, and the US government argues that a 60-month / five-year sentence would reflect “the nature and circumstances of the offence, the history and characteristics of the defendant, and the need for the sentence to reflect the seriousness of the offence, to promote respect for the law, and to provide just punishment… to afford adequate deterrence to criminal conduct” (thanks, Eurogamer).
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