 Hey everyone welcome to today's episode of Prime News and as you can see over here we have less stories than usual today but they're all major stories and ones that I really want to talk about. That being said why don't you enter our Nintendo Switch Super Smash Bros Ultimate Bundle giveaway through the Gleam.io link down in the description why don't we drop some likes on this and see if we can get this Prime News episode up to 150 likes and hey why not share this with your friends and subscribe for more content if you happen to like what you're about to see. Our first story is a bit of justice but also built on the back of something sad Tyler Barris has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Now Tyler Barris if that name sounds familiar is someone who made national headlines not too long ago for his partaking in swatting. For those who don't know what swatting is it's essentially where you're watching someone on live stream and you call in some serious report to local police that makes the swat team go to that person's house and well treat it like it's a serious thing i.e. you know kidnapping or rape or some major crime where the swat team would kick in your door because obviously you're not going to answer your door. It is something that takes advantage of a system that's in place to protect people and save people and Tyler Barris would find addresses and be hired out by some people to swat several different live streamers and unfortunately one of those swatting events led to the death of Andrew Finch and the sad thing about the death of Andrew Finch isn't just that somebody died but Andrew Finch was not the target of the swatting. The person who was the target of the swatting used to live at the address that Andrew Finch lived at and he had moved and Tyler Barris found an old address and that's where he did the swatting at and it led to the death of Andrew Finch who was just 28 years old. This is a really really tragic event that everyone wondered what was going to happen to Tyler Barris who has expressed zero remorse for anything he has done and it turns out it's 20 years in prison and i'm sure there's a probation period that'll happen after that and that obviously assumes that nothing happens while he's in prison and don't be surprised if the stipulations also include never using electronics or the internet again who knows we're talking 20 years from now he'll be 46 at that time and maybe he'll be a different person maybe he won't be i don't know but what i do know is this sends a massive message to everyone out there that is attempting to swat that it's a very serious crime it will be taken seriously in the future whether someone dies or not and now there's a court precedent for you to spend 20 years in prison so i i think that the ultimate end result of this is going to have a net positive on the whole of gaming it's going to help deal with a real issue that has been happening with live streamers over the past handful of years but i also think it's sad that it took such a tragic event to get us to this point on a broader note are you an amazon prime member or a twitch prime member they're basically the same thing if you are you can get a year free of the nintendo switch online service that's right we are not sure if this is a partnership between nintendo and amazon or if this is just something amazon is doing on their own it wasn't really clear in the announcement but essentially you get a year free of nintendo switch online if you are an amazon prime member now how it starts out initially is they give you a free three month code and i think that's to ensure that you actually stick with amazon prime more than just one month and then if you are still an amazon prime member after three months they will give you a code for the rest of the nine months now again that would make it kind of seem like it's a partnership with nintendo because nine month codes don't actually exist at the consumer level or who knows maybe it's three three month codes and then they'd all stacks together to equal out to a year we're not sure because we're not at that point yet uh this does apply to people who already have the nintendo switch online service by the way so someone like me who already bought a year subscription and i happen to also be an amazon prime member i can get an extra year on top so this essentially made my first you know two years of the nintendo switch online service only cost 10 bucks each which uh makes the nintendo switch online service a lot more stomachable especially since i really enjoy tetris 99 i feel like that's worth the price of admission at least at 10 bucks a year but that's just me a lot of people out there are still going to be if you on the online service even giving it to them for free they're just going to refuse to use it but uh hey it's free uh so if you happen to have amazon prime there's not really a reason not to take advantage of it amazon does note by the way that you need to pay attention to when the when the uh subscription is going to end because your card will be automatically charged that's on nintendo's end they try to automatically renew that's all subscription services work so uh yeah kind of cool right i mean we can all get some free nintendo switch online if you're part of amazon prime which i personally find amazon prime a very worthwhile venture between the live streaming stuff by the way it's like a hundred hundred twenty bucks a year or something you get the live streaming you get the two-day shipping i know it's not for everyone but uh i enjoy it so yay more for me this next story is just super quick because if you can't tell by the green in the background we're celebrating yoshi's craft of world uh because it released today i haven't picked up my copy yet i do plan to be picking it up later today once my kids get home from school so that should be a lot of fun uh playing some yoshi and uh it's going to be a good time i think it's going to be a good time tonight uh maybe expect an extra live stream if things go my way uh but if things go my way they might not but uh yeah i'm gonna be playing a lot of yoshi and i can't wait a 24-year-old has been charged in a case involving hacking nintendo and microsoft's servers and uh this person who i'm not going to name since it isn't a massively publicly known name like tyler barris was in the first story so i don't really want to give him the individual attention he might have been seeking from this uh he accessed nintendo servers and got access to uh a bunch of unreleased game code uh and 2365 or so accounts and usernames assumed presumably of nintendo employees since these were internal servers uh he did some other things too with microsoft i'm not exactly sharing all the details for that because he was originally charged for the microsoft stuff then on probation went and hacked nintendo and just made everything worse for himself uh he has not sold or done anything with this information and there's been a lot of debate around this in the nintendo community as well because why is this person getting in trouble you know doesn't nintendo pay 10 000 for people to like find out how to hack their stuff well that's because he was using vpns which means he was trying to hide the fact he was hacking and the software he was using the hack is all well and good but he wasn't doing it with the intent of anything other than malicious activities uh because he never submitted this stuff to nintendo and obviously the hacking of microsoft really had nothing to do with anything because microsoft doesn't pay people to potentially hack their stuff so in the end this was a completely malicious attempt and he is going to get 15 months in prison in addition to that he has 18 months of a suspension and then serious crime prevention order was also issued in this case where for the next five years he can't break this order and if he does he gets five years in prison along with an unlimited amount of fines so no set limit this is importing because nintendo estimates the damages from this hacking attempt between 900 000 and 1.8 million uh so nintendo is not going to take this lightly if he happens to get out of prison in 15 months and then try to hack them again uh yeah that's gonna be five years in prison in addition to fines in addition to a new sentence so uh yeah i he's his hacking career is pretty much over he's not allowed to even really do it anymore so uh so that's good news and thankfully none of the public data was made available he didn't this data never ended up becoming public in any way obviously nintendo caught wind of this eventually it didn't catch wind of it till may of 2018 so this is something that was happening uh at the end of 2017 into 2018 uh but still you know this is what happens if you're hacking nintendo servers even using vpns uh you can get caught and uh you can go to prison so sucks you're just 24 years old and uh this is gonna be hanging over you until your 30s and even then um if you have a second charge in your 30s is not going to be such an easy 15 month sentence the second time around and that's going to do it for today's episode of prime news kind of a couple weird legal stories right like we don't get a lot of stories like that but that's kind of what happened on friday um i hope all of you guys out there that bought yoshi's craft at world are having a fantastic time as i'm sure i will be later today and i want to thank you all for tuning in i'm nathan your awful jantz and i'll just catch each and every one of you in the next video