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Re:Machine-owned enterprises are inevitable by jacquesm on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @04:55PM (#13934849)
Erm. No. Corporations can and do shield their owners from legal liability, only in the most blatant cases will the corporate veil be pierced, otherwise 'limited liability' does what it says on the tin.

For officers of the company it is a different matter, but even there punishment beyond being fired is very rare.

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Re:Machine-owned enterprises are inevitable by return0 on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @05:07PM (#13934967)
Thats for financial liability. What if the machine makes a crime?
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Re:Machine-owned enterprises are inevitable by jacquesm on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @05:29PM (#13935165)
Many corporations have been found guilty of crimes. Rarely did an officer of those companies get sent to jail, most of the times even though a person committing that same crime would end up in jail officers of the company are not charged and instead the corporation pays a fine.

More data on this subject than you can absorb in a few days:

http://lib.law.virginia.edu/Garrett/plea_agreements/home.php...

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Re:Machine-owned enterprises are inevitable by dragonwriter on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @05:30PM (#13935180)
Aside from discretionary charging, it's fundamentally possible for a company to be guilty of a crime without any individual officer being guilty of that crime.
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Re:Machine-owned enterprises are inevitable by jacquesm on Wednesday March 22, 2017 @05:46PM (#13935314)
Yes. That's a bit paradoxical but correct and one of the ways in which corporate crimes end up being dealt with differently than crimes committed by natural persons.
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