> Ugh. I hate people that like to pretentiously crap over what others give them in order to signal their sanctimoniousness.

> Also, don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.

So you are tone policing the author's "sanctimoniousness" but also support Ortiz completely destroying a young man's life over a pretty minor copyright issue?

Strange ethics ...

Spare me. Losing a loved one sucks - we all understand that. Exploiting that grief to generate sanctimonious rage towards Ortiz is unfair.

I’m occasionally a criminal defense attorney and a former overly-charged defendant myself. I’d blame his attorney before Ortiz.

How about "the time should be reasonable and proportionate to the crime actually committed" and "the crime should actually be a crime" and other related concepts.

"Don't do the crime if you can't do the time" is pretty authoritarian, as far as quips go.