Great news everyone! Sony settled the class action accusing them of monopolizing PlayStation digital game sales.
Bad news: your share is $1.78. In store credit. For the store they allegedly monopolized.
The UK looked at the same conduct and said $2.7 billion.
Funny how that works.
https://blog.ppb1701.com/sonys-monopoly-fine-gets-paid-in-monopoly-money
#bigtech #blog #drm #enshittification #gaming #playstation #sony #userhostile
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