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Netpliance Pays Up For False Advertising And More

Posted by timothy on from the we-just-assumed-they-wanted-to-pay dept.

The Dev writes: "According to this story Netpliance 'greed to pay a civil penalty of $100,000 and reimburse some customers who had been charged Internet access fees before they used the service.' This is probably in response to their tactics after it was discovered that the I-Opener made a cool portable Linux workstation." It didn't take after the realization of its possibilities as a slim linux box for Netpliance to start charging people whether or not they signed up for their service.

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  1. What a slippery world... by sacherjj · · Score: 5

    ...where lawyers can twist things so.

    Netpliance agreed to pay a civil penalty of $100,000 and reimburse some customers who had been charged Internet access fees before they used the service.

    Yet...

    Netpliance did not admit guilt

    Here is all the money we took, and an amount to show that we won't do it again, but we really did do anything? Gotta love it.