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[–] oldmanalex@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"UMG, Sony, and Warner, secured a $322 million default judgment".

Lol. Good luck. They are based in Russia if I'm not mistaken. Us and russia mutually ignore each other's legal judgements. If I recall correctly Russia has some judgement against Google for billions of dollars, good luck mutually collecting.

[–] girlnamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip 11 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I’m pretty sure it was actually like trillions or quadrillions, it was some number that was so large that it was not even possible to pay out if they wanted to

[–] DreadFlintstone@quokk.au 20 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

You were... close?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxvnwkl5kgo

A Russian court has fined Google two undecillion roubles - a two followed by 36 zeroes - for restricting Russian state media channels on YouTube. In dollar terms that means the tech giant has been told to pay $20,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

From a CNN article:

The virtually unpronounceable penalty amounts to $20 decillion — or around $20 billion trillion trillion. That dwarfs the size of the global economy.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 hours ago

See?

Laws are just made up too, just like money.

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