Google admits anticompetitive conduct in Australia, agrees to modest fine Google on Monday admitted to anticompetitive conduct in its dealings with Australian telcos. Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission on Monday announced a lawsuit against the web giant after it admitted requiring Telstra and Optus, Australia’s two biggest telcos, to only pre-install Google Search on Android phones they …
Businesses have the ability to simply refuse to pay, as no government is going to sanction a big business over unpaid fines.
With parking tickets, there is the option to go to court, but the way it works is that legal representation costs far more than the parking fine and at best the ticket will be invalidated, or usually a mere fee reduction (leaving you with the legal costs).
Challenge private parking fines. Don’t admit liability. In separate letters, keep asking them for endless details, evidence, photos, names, proof of who was driving, times, witnesses. They soon give up.
Don’t bother challenging council or government parking fines.
This is not legal advice.
were sent bankrupt over enforcement over their massive intentional copyright infringement.
But unfortunately that's not going to happen - it looks like governments are instead going to give such companies copyright exceptions.
...The next time I get stopped for speeding, I'll agree a "modest" fine of €10....
If you have at least one building full of overpaid lawyers with the all the charm and moral qualities of pubic lice and who are willing to twist any legislation into distorted mobius shapes then feel free, otherwise, forget it.
> "China has tweaked its immigration rules to create a new class of visa that allows young science and technology pros to work in the country."
Yes, but the serious question here is, how many non-Chinese would want to work there in the first place?
This is an obvious response and attempt to cash in on the fact that- after the better part of a century where the US was seen as the most desirable place for scientists and generally skilled people to work and which in turn enjoyed the fruits of that talent and the dominance it helped support- they are now, under Trump and pals, doing their best to relinquish that lead by alienating such people and discouraging them from working in the US.
Of course, that lead really got going in the first place after Nazi Germany started persecuting and forcing out scientists, who fled to the US where they were safer and more welcome, hence "Hitler's gift" to the rest of the world.
And now that there's likely to be a similar brain drain *from* the US, China is far from the only country attempting to cash in on that.
But despite its increasing strength and rivalry to the US in scientific research, I can't see it as the type of place foreigners would be rushing to just yet, even if they *could* get in with fewer restrictions.
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> The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan’s biggest newspaper, has sued Perplexity AI for scraping its content and using it to create derivative works
Despite claims to the contrary, the entire AI model is based on scraping other people’s work for training, without compensating the owners of the original content.
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