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Nice, Sony installs rootkit into your computer and sued for $7.50 fine [1] but when women downloaded 24 songs she fined for 1.5M. What would be the punishment
by yatsyk 16y ago
Nice, Sony installs rootkit into your computer and sued for $7.50 fine [1] but when women downloaded 24 songs she fined for 1.5M.
What would be the punishment if she install rootkit in Sony or RIAA owned computer?
[1] http://www.pcworld.com/article/125838/settlement_ends_sony_rootkit_case.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/125838/settlement_ends_sony_r...
- sudont 16y agoThink about it like this: In the US, a corporation is a legal person. However, corporations are composed of many people who run the company. A quick google brings up 158,500 in the case of sony. Since the judge broke down the payment to each person, we can re-constitute the number by the people in Sony she would have hurt. So 158,500 * 7.50 = 1,188,750; a number roughly similar to what she now has to pay. You know, maybe these justices are basing it ((song value * #of songs) * number of people in company) Lawyers: My fuzzy math is available for hire.