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[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 88 points 3 months ago (3 children)

https://phys.org/news/2010-11-million-dollar-verdict-music-piracy-case.html

In all fairness, meta should be assessed a fee of 250k per EACH pirated work.

This would amount to forfeiting all assets to doge.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

They might end up having to pay more money than exists on the planet at that rate.

[–] Grunt4019@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Assuming 2.6 MB per book.

81 TB would be 32,667,175 books.

At $250k per book that would come out to:

$8.17 trillion.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And I'd guess all that money would then go to military funding, with Anna's Archive, again getting nothing out of it?

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 1 points 3 months ago

It would go to... Uh...

HEY SOMEONE PUT A DEAD CAT ON THE TABLE!