This hasn’t always been the case, valve has taken action before to ruin gambling sites and the attention could negatively affect them
Comment on Spectator rushes stage at CS2 tournament and gets tackled into trophy, smashing it to pieces
malloc@lemmy.world 6 months agoNegative attention is PR, never the less. It will drag on in courts. Probably pay a small fine but the $$$ from publicity stunt to outweigh court fine
LethargyTheGhost@lemmy.world 6 months ago
VonReposti@feddit.dk 6 months ago
According to Danish law they are risking 6 months of jail time (or 6 years under “particularly aggravating circumstances” but I don’t think that’s relevant), so not just money. The destroyed trophy, even though they weren’t directly aiming for it, a good lawyer might go after them on grounds of vandalism which is up to 1 year and 6 months under normal circumstances (disclaimer: I havent’t seen the video).
So far I don’t think there’s much precedence on it so it is hard to predict the outcome. Usually you wouldn’t get the highest punishment for a first offence, so if it is jail time I’d be surprised if it’s more than a month. But a jail punishment will haunt your criminal record for 5 years while a fine will stay with you for 2 years, which is actually the the worst part if you have anything but a low-level job in Denmark.