> Bwahaha. Since when is business, or hell life in general fair?
The entire purpose and objective of the law is to make society just and fair. It is far from perfect, but it is well superior to the selfish mayhem you speak of.
Ho man. Have you ever actually sat in a court room before?
Or been involved in cases?
This is so far from the actual application of the law it’s hilarious.
The purpose of the law is keeping problem cases under control, providing a degree of predictability necessary for social stability, and mediating disputes in a way they don’t escalate into socially disruptive violence.
‘Keeping the peace’.
All the rest is window dressing/PR.
The reason why Google is getting this case thrown at it is not because what it was doing was unfair - but because they were too damn good at doing it.
If they went bankrupt trying or it didn’t work, no one would care. Same if they were only middling successful (but didn’t get so obscenely rich and high profile off it). There are hundreds of examples of this right now in a number of industries, from meat packing to RAM, that will continue to be ignored.
And because they’ve been so good at it, it’s stirring up a lot of anger and resentment that will cause problems. So they need to be “brought back under control”. Just like Microsoft was back in the day.
The entire purpose and objective of the law is to make society just and fair. It is far from perfect, but it is well superior to the selfish mayhem you speak of.
Laws are also not retroactive.