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It's not that monumental, and still lower than the profits from their actions.
I you bother to open the article and only just look under the header you will see also:
"The ag manufacturing giant will also make digital diagnostic, maintenance, and repair tools available to third parties for 10 years."
Which is a big deal for right to repair if you've followed this issue at all.
That is still only giving back an inch after they stole a mile
Live to fight another day. Its a process. Appreciate the little wins in life my man.
See, that’s one of the big things that infuriates me about corporate penalties of this nature: the profit they generate from the illegal thing generally outweighs - and often outright dwarfs by orders of magnitude - the penalty the court assesses. The solution is super obvious: assess penalties on top of the confiscation of ill-gotten gains. But that will certainly never happen.