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[-] Metal_Zealot@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago

Literally just chump change to them. We need to start actually punishing these fuckers, not slapping their wrists and saying "Don't do it again, alright??"

[-] zainitopia@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

The funny part is that the compensation is maxed at $25/person, it's actually a joke for those that were affected.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

It’s weird that they have to payout anything when they were hardly the first to monetize this way

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

What-about-ism is not a valid consideration for the law for very good reasons. I think we'd all be better off if more people in general could see through how petty of an argument it is.

[-] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Not really though. Cause there is precedent.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Care to share some of those good reasons? And how the comment you replied to is a whataboutism? It's not raising a new issue to distract from the topic; it's asking why nobody else doing the same shit is being punished.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The comment above didn't say "Hey, we should go after those other guys." It pointed out that it's weird for Epic to be punished when others weren't. Epic broke the law - they were punished. Ideally everyone else who has done so should be pursued as well but whether or not they have been isn't a reason to delay punishing Epic.

This is classic what-about-ism (though I don't think it was malicious just ill conceived) and, legally speaking it leads to a very serious mechanical problem. Lawsuits aren't instantaneous or entirely predictable. If we wanted to pursue fossil fuel companies in court for environmental damages the absolute first thing they'll all do is put PR pressure on the court system by pointing out how much less bad they are than their competitors - and its impossible for all of the big companies to be pursued precisely in sync... this pressure needs to be ignored by the legal system or it prevents the fair prosecution of anyone.

[-] Cornpop@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Wow a whole 2.7 million. What's that 12 hours of revenue?

[-] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago

Not even half that amount of time.

So Epic games is complaining that they removed the loot boxes in 2019, so let's look at what they made around that time; about 4.5 Billion a year.

So that's about $514,000.00 an hour, or about five hours and fifteen minutes.

[-] dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

So like the salary of a single executive.

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