Again, that's all speculation. Sentences of this sort are almost always served concurrently, not back to back. Just because a sympathetic narrative on the matte

Again, that's all speculation. Sentences of this sort are almost always served concurrently, not back to back. Just because a sympathetic narrative on the matter wants to paint the picture of it being a hopeless situation does not make it so. If he was willing to admit his trespassing, bunch of copyright infringement, and DoS was wrong he'd in all likelihood walk free within a year. But for whatever reason he was not able to do that, and here we are. Personally, I'm glad we are in the world where trespassing into a property to hijack their network and cause outages of global services is not considered "minor". Obviously the situation as it played out here is an absolute tragedy, but the matter was indeed serious and was handled with an appropriate level of gravity. All the prosecution was looking for was a "my b, that was wrong" to prove their point - and he refused to give it. As they say: if you can't do the time, don't do the crime.