When Anna's Archive suffered widespread downtime this month, users feared another legal enforcement action.
  • oldmanalex@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
    39·
    3 days ago

    “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.

    • Girl Named ZERO@piefed.zeromedia.vipEnglish
      14·
      2 days ago

      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.auEnglish
        25·
        2 days ago

        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.