I can understand why he was sentenced to prison but I've never really understood why Ulbrict was put in a high security prison. He's basically harmless without a keyboard.
To inflict cruel and/or unusual punishment and as a deterrent to others. The judge only acknowledged the latter half of my first sentence and the former is the quiet part judges can’t say out loud lest the damned have a toehold for an appeal.
> "my" ?
What was the nature of your case? Or are you saying you're DPR?
He was referring to the first sentence of his comment, not a judicial sentencing..sentence.
Indeed, I am not DPR and I have no skin in the game of his sentencing.
To frighten potential creators of other marketplaces.
To make an example... deterrence.
Because if one person that can destroy the state monopoly on trade then that person is a severe threat to the state and needs to be fought with everything the state has at it's disposal. I'm honsetly surprised they stopped short of death penalty.