If you enjoy reading business biographies like me you'll find that gangster tactics like deployed by Vivendi against Valve are surprisingly common. The smaller

If you enjoy reading business biographies like me you'll find that gangster tactics like deployed by Vivendi against Valve are surprisingly common. The smaller business has essentially no recourse when faced with an opponent like Vivendi. The courts are unable to hold big businesses to account because (a) diffusion of responsibility and (b) when found guilty the fines are as threatening as a parking ticket. In this specific case Gabe Newell fought and miraculously won, but gaben is the exception and most businesses are (rightly) afraid to fight Goliath and that's a big loss to society.