• Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 hours ago

    I’m not sure how, but buying a company for just the data should be illegal.

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      3 hours ago

      They didn’t, they bought the data, and only the data, in a bankruptcy auction.
      Everything is on sale for the highest bidder in an effort to get as much money to pay the company debt as possible. Buying the actual company would be suicide, as then you also get all that debt.

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        I think that’s the point, they could keep it afloat as competition for what they paid