Comment But your honor! (Score 3, Interesting) 562
But your honor, I only pulled the trigger for 1 second, 2 tops!
While the fine seems FREAKING large I can appreciate that it was tied directly too a purpose. i.e. the amount paid to hire someone to secure the site. But I feel attaching it to the actual value lost (5k) would have been more fair, maybe with a bit extra to be punitive?
I imagine that if they caught more people the fine would have been spread out among them?
But I don't understand why intent to do harm would in any way be lessened because "I only did the bad thing for a short period of time."