In Canada: Unauthorized interception of private communications by a non-participant is an indictable offence under s.184(1), carrying up to 5 years in prison.

LG should face legal consequences.

The news stories blew the issue way out of proportion. There were claims that anything with a computer in it would stop working at midnight. Cars would crash, planes would fall out of the sky, etc. Y2K was really just a finance and IT problem. The fact is most electronic devices of the time, even ones with a clock, didn’t know what the year was and couldn’t be effected by a short-sighted engineering problem.

It would be significantly harder to provide the opposite.