on 10-14-04 5:52 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 05:51 PM -0600 10/14/2004, Philip Stortz top posted with 90 char lines:they managed to get millions of dollars in punitive damages based on what they said the loss _would_ have been
URL?
You know, the whole "_potential_ damage" concept is so bizarre, I had to scope this out...
Here:
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/06/28/181227.shtml
Skimming the artice, apparently, this guy will have to pay $500 a month for the next 30,000 years for "conspiracy" to pirate DirecTv (i.e. he was _thinking_ of doing something without actually having done it). If there's another dimension to this that I've overlooked, please let me know.
An interesting read. Ignore the 30,000 figure; it's simply a fixed $500/mo for life. I don't have a big problem with that: Googling reveals he had 5000 customers... 5000 * the cost of the monthly service those customers would have "stolen" from DirecTV... Figuring $50 per, is $250,000 per month. At $500/mo he got off easy!
- Dan.
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