Ryan Hernandez sentenced to 3 years in prison after hacking Nintendo and possessing illegal images

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The United States Department of Justice has released the ruling regarding the case against Ryan Hernandez, also known as RyanRocks. Earlier this year, the 21-year-old defendant was accused of and plead guilty to possessing over a thousand videos and images of child pornography, as well as stealing confidential information from Nintendo and distributing it to the public. This was not Hernandez's first offense--in 2016, when he was a minor, he had successfully phished the log in information from a Nintendo employee and used it to obtain documents and images about the Nintendo NX prior to its official reveal as the Nintendo Switch. This led to the FBI getting involved, to which they informed Hernandez that they knew of his activities, and advised him to not break the law again.

Hernandez did not listen, and proceeded to hack directly into Nintendo's servers in 2018 and 2019, even publicly showing off his skills to others on social media. Once more, the FBI visited his home in June 2019, arresting Hernandez after seizing his computers and hard drives, finding hundreds of stolen Nintendo documents and "over a thousand" explicit pictures and videos of minors. During his hearing in January 2020, Hernandez plead guilty to both counts, and today, he has been sentenced to three years in a prison designed for inmates "with cognitive challenges".

Additionally, Hernandez must pay $259,323 in restitution to Nintendo for damages.

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My theory is that deep inside this guys are so fearfull to look inside themselves and found out they actually can feel things toward under age girls, that just the thought of it, makes them hate it and then they go in a rage. Because deep inside, they are probably pedos too.

In essence we are all our respective sexes, then if you are a douchebag, sure you could potentially abuse a minor. What I mean is, technically, we can ALL be pedos, and that is a TRUTH no one ever wants discuss or even dare to put thought into.

I have personally have the experience of looking at a girl from the back thinking WOW she is so hot! Then, I keep walking and finally I am able to see her face, and realize she might be 13 or something. And I am like, SHIT! I thought she was older (she was dressed like an older girld, tight jeans, etc). But, what I mean is, sex is sex. What we do or become later in life only depends on being decent people, or not.

Uh...

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If he had done everything so publicly how this is the first time i am hearing about this because i do t remember any of the media or blogs mentioning anything about NX,Switch being leaked prior to its official icial announcement
 

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I see no difference when people kill someone for fun and wanting a death sentence for justice, cause they effectively kill someone by sentence him to death same as when they kill someone for fun or whatever reason.
Its the same thing.
But ofc you can argue that but imo it makes no difference.

Death sentence should not even exist in this day and age. Jail is harsh but Ok,
i understand that, but i don't understand how can any human being and sane person accept former.

Just wanting someones death is fucked up enough imo, no matter what your reason for so is,
and should not be encouraged let alone made into reality.


You know...just saying. Only my opinion.

Only death i can understand but still can't fully accept as a human, but i understand,
is when family decides to turn off life support for their family member, ending his life (killing him effectively)
so he him self wont suffer.
tbh i agree, death sentence isnt right, theyre human beings yknow
















































let's just make them guinea pigs for experiments. itd be nice to have actual human beings being used for testing like in SCP.
 

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I heard that the creator of freeShop had CP.
Cruel was a degree worse than Ryan in that he hosted the shit for others to download on the clearnet, but yes you're correct. The original creator of freeshop was a pedophile.

The tool got forked pretty quickly afterwards and the fork had nothing to do with him anymore until it's demise through Nintendo patching it.

Also, I'll just go on the record here and say that nobody who has worked on freeshop since cruel got jailed ever has talked with cruel and I can also fairly safely state that they all oppose CP.
 
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... I think this Post has arrived at the fork in the road where, culturally, the World has two opinions on the Death Penalty aka Capital Punishment.

While the opinion already in the Comments is Western, the Eastern opinion is that severe penalties in Laws are created to be deterrents; violating such Laws despite their severe penalties will not make said penalties points of debate, as the Laws were put in place prior to them being broken.

Stepping into most Asian courtrooms, the Defendant will be assumed to understand the Law, not the other way around.
Providing leniencies cannot be done at the direct request nor time-frame of the Defendant's supporters, as this will create the impression that Laws are unenforceable, emboldening more people to follow in the Criminal's path. As such, leniencies will usually be framed as a Government gift, at the timing convenient to the Government; negotiations will usually be done out of Media, with the backdrop of full support by the Defendant to follow the initial Court ruling and the Justice System.

I realise this is a Gaming website, but I feel it's beneficial to explain the majority Asian opinion on a Law issue here, so those that have not interacted with Eastern countries understand it better for the future.
 

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tbh i agree, death sentence isnt right, theyre human beings yknow


let's just make them guinea pigs for experiments. itd be nice to have actual human beings being used for testing like in SCP.

In China the communists have been doing this since the nineties with inmates. Of course inmates who are healthy. I mean harvisting their organs and such. I have heard the recordings myself. I wouldn't be surprised if it is "really" true.
 

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tbh i agree, death sentence isnt right, theyre human beings yknow
It's not about that they are human beings (humans are not only living creatures) or that people are being sentenced / killed (i mean it is also about that but that wasn't my point), it's about another person or people wishing death to someone that is more horrifying to me imo, and that mentality that goes with it.
 

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The most surprising thing in this thread is how many retards are actually debating CP being planted lmao. What a bunch of dumbasses.

Dude should've been locked up a lot longer.
 

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The most surprising thing in this thread is how many retards are actually debating CP being planted lmao. What a bunch of dumbasses.

Dude should've been locked up a lot longer.
it's cause they took in account his autism they maybe geniuses for the most part but they lack socialization skills and can even lack in the knowing of conciquenses
 

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May I ask why you think that? What is your reasoning why this could not be possible?
I'm not Hells Malice--but he didn't say it's not "possible."

However, it's a dumb argument because there's no evidence that it was planted. People are jumping on the conspiracy train for no reason. All signs point to him being in possession of CP and none point to him not having it or that Nintendo/the FBI planted it.

We haven't seen anything fishy about the investigation. A conspiracy theory with no evidence isn't worth debating about.

Edit: Let's give an example of why it's not worth debating. I say that Marilyn Monroe was murdered by an in infant Barrack Obama back in 1962 and that the FBI covered it up.

Prove to me that there is no possible way that happened. You can't. Because no matter how small of a chance, it's theoretically possible. And now I can twist the fact that you can't definitively say that it's impossible to mean that my theory has credence. You heard it here folks... Obama killed Monroe.
 
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Semantics and strawman arguments ("conspiracy theory", over the top made-up examples as argument) aside.

What evidence is there it was not planted?
As far as I see it, the only fact is that he pleaded guilty to possession. With the US legal system, that might simply be a bargain for a reduced sentence.

Oh hey, I found a furtive fallacy in your own reply. You're the one bringing the suggestion that it was planted to the table so the burden is on you to provide evidence that it was planted. I'll give you that my suggestion about Obama killing Marilyn Monroe was exaggerated, but it doesn't change my point that you can't disprove it and has merit (if we are using the logic that something needs to be proven impossible to rule it out).

Also, you're not going to tell me that it's inappropriate to say that planting CP on a person by the FBI a conspiracy. That's... Uh... Exactly what a conspiracy is. Elvis is still alive, the earth is flat, we never landed on the moon, Nintendo paid the FBI to put child porn on someone's computer. All conspiracies.
One argument is, when a statistic anomaly appears, every hacker is somehow in possession of illigal pictures, it is VERY fishy.

Ope and not every hacker was caught with it. Why didn't Nintendo/FBI plant CP on Gary Bowser of TX? Did Nintendo/FBI also plant the CP on the freeship dev and were lying that he was hosting a website that distributed it? Or is it more likely that the freeship guy as well as Hernandez were guilty of possession of CP?

You say EVERY hacker is in possession of illegal pictures? Now that's an exaggeration. Again, until any evidence is presented that the FBI and/or Nintendo planted CP (an argument that stems entirely from these forums and wasn't even addressd in court) it's a conspiracy theory that holds no weight.

In fact, the coincidence that a whole TWO Nintendo hackers were caught with CP several years apart while many others weren't isn't even circumstantial evidence worth mentioning. But that seems to be the only basis for this--yes--conspiracy.
 

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