>>47461909>How anyone can defend disproportional punishment>disproportional punishment>relatively harmlessThese companies spend literal hundreds of millions on researching the best ways of advertising their products, and the pace at which info gets released is thought up more than a year in advance, after spending ungodly amounts of money for advisors and specialists that ensure the months up to release drum up the best possible anticipation.
We're not just talking about lost sales, the leak of info during an advertising campaign means the company effectively wasted a chunk of their marketing budget on the creation of a ruined schedule, as well as losing all relevant data for future campaigns, since the leaks make it impossible to judge the effectiveness of the original planned campaign.
From a corporate perspective, 150k is nothing but a slap on the wrist.
You really shouldn't think it's "no big deal" just because it damages a game you hate, you really have no idea how gigantic the damages caused by industrial information theft are.
