Nintendo should be ashamed.
(This is a US-centric definition; apologies if this doesn't match your jurisdiction.)
In American English there is a convention where different terms are preferred for different types, but even then a jail is not just pre-trial. [1]
I think the main point of the parent was the problem of societies that like to start inflicting punishment on people accused of crimes even before they are sentenced, as a response to the great grandparent which talked specifically about being sentenced.
1. https://www.expertlaw.com/library/criminal-law/what-differen...
And if they hadn't been convicted? Their problem, apparently.
True, but kinda irrelevant to the point being made? @bogwog specifically claimed that Nintendo's actions earned a 27-year-old a "prison sentence" (their words, not mine). That implies a trial, conviction, and sentence.
@AussieWog93, when fact-checking, was clearly skeptical of the conviction and sentencing aspect: "sent to prison" would be a pretty unusual thing to say when talking about being arrested and put in jail pre-trial.
The point is that someone said, in effect, "Nintendo got someone convicted and sent to prison". Someone else said "Hmm, I looked into this and couldn't find any evidence that it went that far". Yes, the guy may have spent some time in jail pre-trial (assuming there even was a trial; it's possible charges were dropped), and that's still super shitty, but it is orders of magnitude less shitty than being convicted of a crime and sentenced to a prison term.
Definitions and word use are important! Frankly this entire subthread is silly and kinda pointless, though...
That's just splitting hairs over some word choice. Replace the word "prison" with "jail" if you must, but it doesn't change what I was saying:
Nintendo sent someone to jail for selling cheats for a single player game. To jail! (emphasized and repeated)
No, it's not splitting hairs. He was arrested. At least where I'm from, that basically means being escorted to a police station and questioned.
Perhaps you know some specifics about the Japanese legal system that I don't, and everyone over there that is arrested spends a week in jail waiting to be heard by a magistrate.
But as far as I can tell, there's nothing to even suggest that he was charged.