I think a number of lawsuits are in progress of teaching them that particular lesson.

Still waiting for anything resembling a penalty, been a long time now. 5 years?

	▲	verdverm 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Most of the time they are hardly penalties and look more like rounding errors to these companies

Not sure it's clear they will learn anything.... My impression was they were winning or settling these suits

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isodev 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

But is that a reason to keep doing it? Is the penalty the only reason people hold back on doing bad stuff?

	▲	pseudosavant 26 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Isn’t that basically how societies work? Different penalties, but some kind of penalties enforcing the boundaries of that society?
	▲	pessimizer 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		(Violation of HN Terms & Conditions \|\| Violation of copyright) != "bad stuff" (Violation of HN Terms & Conditions \|\| Violation of copyright) = Potential penalty
	▲	fortyseven 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Does profit outweigh the penalty?