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A $2.5 million fine is nothing to a guy with an estimated $2.1 billion fortune [1]. If we don't want the rich to flaunt the law with impunity, the find should be a hundred times larger - that way it might actually act as a deterrent.

Of course, you could argue that we don't care if the rich can commit certain offences with impunity. Perhaps we've signalled that by legislating a fine rather than imprisonment for this offence.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Parker

> I think CCC is missing a 'Р'.

Ah yes, because having requirements for a permit before modifying certain locations that are a shared public resource totally makes California the Soviet Union.

Well, the bill for the whole thing was 10Mi

(Which is probably change for Sean "do you know what's cooler than a million dollars" Parker)

Yes, it's probably excessive, but maybe not all the pictures are there