Re:Judge Refuses to Allow Sale of Infowars to The Onion
by PessimalDecimal on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @09:48AM
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Right the problem here is the targeted, selective enforcement -- really, overenforcement -- of laws. Nobody would argue that people hit with $100 million judgments for copyright violations while torrenting music actually had copyright on that music. They didn't. But the point of the eye watering judgments was to send a message. Same here.
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Re:Judge Refuses to Allow Sale of Infowars to The Onion
by impossiblefork on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @10:01AM
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>Nobody would argue that people hit with $100 million judgments for copyright violations while torrenting music actually had copyright on that music
I don't understand the above, but they've actually made this judgement, and it's much too large. A firm worth as little as 30 million can be an incredible innovative company, supported by a government and serious effort, and here we have people just handing out a 1 billion dollar fine over something where nothing even close to that value has been destroyed.
It's as I said in my initial comment, the value of a whole town.