There are no felony charges that don&#x27;t warrant jail time.<p>There are, however, federal sentencing guideline ranges that could result in probation instead of a custodial sentence given: no remunerative intent, no prior convictions, &amp;c.<p>I think a lot of people could agree that this is a crime that should have landed in the lower range of the guidelines (but might not, given the CFAA guideline damage scaling).<p>I don&#x27;t think CFAA sentences should scale with damages at all, unless the prosecution can prove an intent to cause those damages (that&#x27;s tricky in this case because the prosecution can put on a pretty good case demonstrating that intent).