> It's absolutely ridiculous to take 10 years off someones life for doing good.

I don't think stealing my CC number was "doing good."

Whether or not Hammond did "good" is debatable. I happen to think he's a criminal and he should go to jail. Perhaps not for 10 years though.

Nobody should ever go to jail for non violent crimes. The whole point of containing someone in a cell is because they are a menace to society, and somewhere along the line we blurred it.

Instead of wasting a human being for 10 years, give them mandatory community service, or worse, customer service heh. Put them to work, make them productive. People have too much skill and creativity to waste away in a jail for 10 years. It would absolutely wreck me.

I would, without hesitation, kill myself as soon as possible after sentencing.

> Nobody should ever go to jail for non violent crimes. The whole point of containing someone in a cell is because they are a menace to society, and somewhere along the line we blurred it.

You seem to think that the only possible way to be a menace to society is with actual violence. What a positively uncreative viewpoint! Surely you can think of some way to absolutely ruin a person's life without so much as a hint of violence? Likewise, perhaps punching someone in the shoulder isn't as vicious a crime as, say, cleaning out all of their bank accounts via computer hacking?

That's fair. However, by putting them in a cell you're effectively disabling them from everything else in their life just to take away their ability to hack. Treat the crime accordingly.

His crime is in the internet domain. Monitor his internet traffic or take away his personal computer rights.

It's treating the symptom by eradicating all possible causes by throwing the man in prison for a decade.

It's like the russians, bombing and burning all their land so the enemy stands no chance. I think it's wrong to take that approach in this case, but hey, I guess I have some semblance of empathy.