To add a little context, this suspension comes immediately after Anna's Archive publicly implicated themselves in the Spotify scraping "hack" in which they downloaded nearly the entire content library of Spotify and was preparing to release it publicly (~300TB worth) via torrent.
There are DiY videos for going the cheaper route and just buying a large CO2 canister that will last you a couple years and hook it up to the same device after buying a couple valves. It's on my project list after I finish my kitchen reno.
These sort of plausible deniability arguments only work in people's heads. Judges and prosecutors never buy these arguments.
...and even if you think you can convince a jury, it's still enough to issue a search warrant, whereby the prosecutor will find more than enough charges to force you into a plea deal.
Your initial anonymity is your most important defense.
The US is setup differently. The local/state labor departments usually handle pay issues, and almost always force the company to pay/backpay employees. I've dealt with them on occasion, and they do an amazing job in the US. When dealing with the State labor board, the company needs to prove their innocence (which is right because they are expected to have better record keeping).
Unions, unlike in Europe, function to protect hours for hourly workers, carve out job functions for union-only work, set standardized salaries, and prevent dismissals. Historically they did a lot more with worker safety, but that's been taken over by the federal gov't (OSHA).
It's just not comparable to the EU. The words almost mean entirely different things - and that's why talking about it in this forum can be very confusing, and often needlessly antagonistic - because the words just don't mean the same thing.
Right... that's the point... these processes are terrible. Unions create even more of these situations.
Imagine you did get your RAM in time, or could have bought it and expensed it. ...then you had to raise ANOTHER 2 week ticket to have it installed in your computer.
Governments can be fatally dysfunctional before they are overthrown. In this analogy, prior to a shareholder revolt (which do happen), usually the company just goes bankrupt.
Now introduce a powerful union - and now you have TWO incompetent authorities fighting one another, which often results in a hopelessly ineffective company - not a better one.
I appreciate the humor in your responses - but the difference is that my examples were real-world examples - not theoretical.
A company cannot put process in front of every theoretical risk - that will just run you into the ground because an unbounded inefficiency.
They published a blog post outlining their plans.