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Won't they just... continue to operate? Seems like that's how they tend to handle this sort of situation.
by draw_down 10y ago
Won't they just... continue to operate? Seems like that's how they tend to handle this sort of situation.
- crivabene 10y agoWe'll see. They can try to get an appeal court order blocking the original one, or they can just continue to operate and pay the 10k/day fine, which is nothing for them. The problem is that if they do so then I am sure they'll not make their life easy...
- dingo_bat 10y agoCan confirm. I'm in Bangalore, and a few months ago the city banned Uber pool. The next day Uber sent out an email "all pool rides are now ₹49". They eventually got the order overturned in a couple of weeks (by suing the city I guess). But they never stopped operating.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoGovernments could always require ISPs in a country to blackhole DNS to Uber's API endpoints. Or blackhole traffic to their netblocks. Uber is not above reproach.
- Markoff 10y agoI would say 3 million EUR monthly fee to operate in whole Italy is too low, they should step up their game and make the fine at least 20-50x higher to consider it fine and not fee