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Re:Backing Up Spotify by palata on Saturday December 20, 2025 @06:20PM (#46340636)
> They are too big to fail but they aren’t too big to have to pay out a huge settlement. Facebook [...]

I think it's pretty clear from history that they are too big to have to pay out a huge settlement.

First, they never had to. There was never a "huge" settlement, nothing that actually did hurt.

Second, the US don't do any kind of antitrust, and if a government outside the US tries to fine a US TooBigTech, the US will bully that government (or group of governments) until they give up.

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Re:Backing Up Spotify by codersfocus on Saturday December 20, 2025 @08:22PM (#46341364)
Anthropic had to pay $1.5 billion recently so you're incorrect. I'm sure more of such cases will come up against big tech too.
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Re:Backing Up Spotify by palata on Sunday December 21, 2025 @05:40AM (#46343849)
It's obviously more profitable to pay the fine than to not do the illegal thing in the first place, so I am correct.
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