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Apple bills Epic Games $73 million in legal costs
(appleinsider.com)
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this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2024
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Which is exactly why big companies can pressure normal people (and small companies) in not messing with them and basically can get away with anything.
Oh you gave us bad publicity, we'll sue you for defamation. Even if the chance of them winning is very slim, the risk of having to pay millions in legal fees is enough for most people to roll over. Sad, really.
I feel like this should be limited to what the losing party paid in legal fees, basically doubling it. It's not my fault they hired 200 high-end lawyers vs my single cheap one.
Quoth the article:
In short: Epic Games pissed off the court when it consciously chose to violate the terms of its its contract with Apple before filing the lawsuit, rather than first filing the lawsuit and waiting for it to conclude. The court is taking the unusual step of billing Epic Games for Apple's legal expenses precisely to disincentivize this kind of behavior in the future.