Sony has been fined €13.5 million by French antitrust regulator Autorité de la Concurrence, which has accused the compa…
  • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.comEnglish
    25·
    10 months ago

    Who wants to bet the damage caused and profit gained by this action was a lot higher than this?

    • flyboy_146@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      10 months ago

      …but it’s a start. And it will have a bigger impact than if there was no penalty at all. 🤷

      • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.comEnglish
        17·
        10 months ago

        Yes, absolutely. Still, fines for fortune 500 companies should always be damage+profit gained from the action times two.

        • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
          13·
          10 months ago

          I would say damage + profit + %revenue. It should be made to sting.

          • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.comEnglish
            4·
            10 months ago

            Yeah, that would work too. As long as they gain absolutely nothing every time they get caught it should already work but I‘m okay with either solution. Just the current situation needs to end soon.

  • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    10 months ago

    Good that some governments still enforce customer rights against the ever more prevalent attitude in gaming and tech of “you bought it but we still own it”