Tag: FINE

If you're outside of Pennsylvania, you have nothing to worry about, probably. But one Pennsylvanian woman who started selling goods on eBay to stay at home with her daughter who was diagnosed with a brain tumor, is being prosecuted by the state of Pennsylvania for not having an auctioneer's license. The story essentially boils down to the idea that people who are doing well on eBay in Pennsylvania ...

Last week, news broke that Comcast may be paying a steep FCC fine to the tune of $1.77 trillion dollars for throttling peer-to-peer traffic such as BitTorrent. Yesterday, Comcast confirmed that it has received official word that it is under the investigation of the FCC, but an FCC spokesman would not confirm the letter, saying that "Enforcement Bureau communications of this type were not to be ...

Microsoft doesn't want to be fined like anyone, so they are appealing the ruling on a $350 million fine by the European Commission. Microsoft has since the ruling produced a version of Windows XP that does not include Windows Media Player easing some of the problem, but the EC still says they owe the fine $1.5 million for each day they did not comply with the EC's anti-trust ruling. The bad thing ...

The European Commission is threatening to fine Microsoft $2.4 million every day until it complies with the March '04 order that it provide documentation that will allow competitors to interoperate with its server software, according to BBC News. Microsoft has been given five more weeks to comply, but they they claim to have followed the Commission's "more than 100 requests" to the letter ...