Mark,

you are comparing apples with oranges.

The spammers convicted didn't get convicted for a single spam, or a single crime. They did get convicted for millions, if not billions of crimes! If the spammer is sentenced to 9 years in total, he serves not even 1 second per crime.

Compare that with a robber or murderer - if such an individual had committed billions of robberies or murders, he'd be sentenced to serve billions of life time imprisonments(according to US legal proceedings - different in Europe).

So, the sentences for the crimes still stand in a good relation.



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