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Scruff7 on 03 December 2007

ah, you mean Enron...



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Scruff7 on 03 December 2007

Sega?



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mesoteto on 03 December 2007

its not the whole business just a few bad apples...but thats dosent matter to the media



 

AkiraGr on 03 December 2007

Its the way of the capitalism. This political system is to blame for this kind of business tactics they try to milk the income of the consumer anyway they can. The fun part is that even in this system there are business ethics BUT no one is following them....What a joke the fine should be much more bigger for this kind of mammoth corporations. Just cut their money printing asses so they never try steal us again. We are consumers not a flak of sheep.



TheBigFatJ on 03 December 2007
regin2005 said:
Why is only Sony (out of the Big 3) the only that seems to get fined and sued all the time.

Microsoft has many lawsuits against it -- both from governmental agencies as well as individuals.  With regard to the Xbox 360, there are a pile of class-action lawsuits against them for reliability and disk reading, as well as a governmental investigation was run against them because of the disc-scratching issue.

For the 360, most of Microsoft's lawsuits are about the lack of quality.  Whereas this suit against Sony is really for an unrelated business, of which Sony has many despite Bill Gates' belief that Sony just does video games.



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regin2005 on 03 December 2007
NJ5 said:
regin2005 said:
Why is only Sony (out of the Big 3) the only that seems to get fined and sued all the time.

Microsoft has also had its share of fines ;)

 


 I know.  All of them has had its share in lawsuits, i think....but I've heard Sony the most.



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kirby007 on 03 December 2007
bdbdbd said:
By the way, how much is Micro$ofts fine at the moment? Last time i checked, EU Comission upped the fine to increase for 3 million EUR per day.

i thought it was 2 million euro's a day



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Legend11 on 03 December 2007
kirby007 said:
bdbdbd said:
By the way, how much is Micro$ofts fine at the moment? Last time i checked, EU Comission upped the fine to increase for 3 million EUR per day.

i thought it was 2 million euro's a day


It was settled this year.

Bodhesatva on 03 December 2007

Does anyone know if these usually get paid, or does it get litigated over the course of years?



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TheBigFatJ on 03 December 2007
Legend11 said:
kirby007 said:
bdbdbd said:
By the way, how much is Micro$ofts fine at the moment? Last time i checked, EU Comission upped the fine to increase for 3 million EUR per day.

i thought it was 2 million euro's a day


It was settled this year.

[edit] Apparently there have been a variety of EU investigations on Microsoft since 1998ish. Including the abuse of power investigation.  At least one has been in the headlines within the last two months.

Does anyone know if these usually get paid, or does it get litigated over the course of years?

The lawyers always get paid. That's all that really matters.