I unironically think he should be released. Like I said on the Odysee comments:
'As far as "stolen data" goes, he should not be going to jail at all, because the government and the corporations running it do the same thing on a much larger scale. If they can do it, then individuals should be able to do it, because individuals are more important than institutions. That's why rights exist, when institutions take priority, then you have a might-makes-right dictatorship, like the one that you're living in right now."
"When are they going to arrest all the people running big tech for stealing people's data through their backdoors and built-in spyware? When are the old sacks of shit running the government and the intelligence agencies going to arrest themselves for spying on people? More interested in that, that actually threatens me unlike the pudding man. Also, politicians and corporate heads shouldn't have any privacy, they should be recorded and streamed at all times and all of their movements should be monitored, because they don't believe in privacy for other people, so they shouldn't have it and should get a taste of it."
The pudding man did nothing wrong that the people that run the government didn't do much worse. Release PomPomPurin!
I think they'll instead just give him a deal to work for the FBI in return of not getting arrested.
It actually happens quite a lot; they capture the big all knowing boss who will get to choose between prison time, or working for them to catch a whole bunch of criminals for them with the promise of getting released afterwards.
And of course they will never name any of the high profile people, because that's too dangerous, so they only name the minions or just people who worked for them only once or twice, because those people can't do shit against him or her.