I think I kind of wish there were fines for this kind of issue. I know all software has bugs and I certainly wouldn't want to be on the hook for my free software but I don't charge for free software.

IANAL but I seems like for many non-software products there would be legal repercussions of they caused damage or had other issues. Is there any reasonable way to apply or morph those kinds of laws to software? Ideally it seems like it would be nice if the incentives changed so running all these services in the background is too big a legal risk and they stop?