• worfamerryman@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Doesn’t jail seem a bit excessive? Maybe just fine him a significant amount. But jail for a nonviolent crime is pretty steep.

    • Rentlar@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      I get what you’re saying, but this is part of the mindset that allows billionaire CEOs to evade all accountability for their white-collar crime.

      Sure, the judge arguably should reduce the jail sentence, but this is the law in Japan and prosecutors should pursue a penalty for contravening it, to discourage profiting off of unethical and illegal behaviour.

      • worfamerryman@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        Just make the financial trouble for them much higher. Jail is too harsh a punishment for most crimes in my opinion.

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    1 year ago

    I’m not gonna say this is karma biting him in the ass for disallowing the Sonic Xtreme devs use of the Nights engine, but I am gonna say that thinking about that gives me a very nice sense of Schadenfreude.

    • mint@beehaw.orgOP
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      1 year ago

      Yuji Naka hasn’t had anything to do with sonic in like. Decades at this point you’re good if that’s what you’re worried about

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      1 year ago

      It’s not, he was arrested in November, he was given his sentence a few hours ago.