Re:Microsoft fined $731m by European Commission over web bro...
by lifeisstillgood on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @07:33AM
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Serving time for a purely corporate offence is very very rare. Health and safety negligence is most common, but even the horse war scandal in Europe (where unfit horses were sold as beef and then into ready meals) it's unlikely and people there committed fraud as part of course of business
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Re:Microsoft fined $731m by European Commission over web bro...
by learc83 on Wednesday March 06, 2013 @07:42AM
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That's a matter of prosecutorial discretion. The point is they can serve jail time. What's the point of changing the law so that they can be fined 100% of revenue. The same discretion will still apply.