Nah, it only works for corporations. Peons still have accountability.

I think about this all the time.

Like if I kill someone of course I go to jail. But if I get some people together, say we're a company, and then kill 100 people, nobody goes to jail. How does that work? What a huge loophole.

Phillips (the company) basically killed people with malfunctioning CPAP machines (which are meant to help against sleep apnea) and no one went to jail. So that's a practical example.

While it sounds funny, it doesn't work like that. We'd be having a real corporate shootouts everyday all over the place :))

I don't think that's true in this case. I've never heard of an individual employee who introduced a bug being legally liable for it.

It's already the norm for devs to not be responsible for software malfunctions. They can choose to end their relationship with you, but they can't sue you for damages.