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John Deere to Pay $99 Million in Monumental Right-to-Repair Settlement (www.thedrive.com)

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[–] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not that monumental, and still lower than the profits from their actions.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 points 23 hours ago

See, that’s one of the big things that infuriates me about corporate penalties of this nature: the profit they generate from the illegal thing generally outweighs - and often outright dwarfs by orders of magnitude - the penalty the court assesses. The solution is super obvious: assess penalties on top of the confiscation of ill-gotten gains. But that will certainly never happen.