If the fines are not linked to the profit that the company actually gained using the tactic it’s just a mere business as usual schtick.

Until companies are hurt by the fines enough to change their actual behavior this will continue and nothing will change.

Excuse me for being denser than a neutron star here… but that mean we won’t be able to “home brew” some sort of our own equipment and our own double encryption system (crowd sourcing like where Linux is right now from where it started) is that feasible? Or am I way off the mark here?