If you’re going off the idea that the fine is based on the value of the gain, then you need to go off of the profit made (bit trickier with staff working multiple projects but hard disks aren’t 100% profit)
If the fine does not exceed the value of the gain, is there any incentive to comply with the law?
Welcome to our globally connected modern world and it's silly rules
The amount might very well exceed the value of the gain. My presumption is that the harddisk industry is a margin business. I would be surprised if they have profits of more than 5-10% of the 1.1b.
My point is that revenue is not gain? Like if I’m a retail store reselling at 10% profit $100 of revenue only represents $10 of gain.
It's a settlement. Maybe the DoC thought the fine should be $600M but they only had a 50% chance of succeeding at trial; getting a guaranteed $300M win is then rational.