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AOL Settles Class Action Suit Over Client Software

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the katz-is-first-in-line dept.

An anonymous reader sent in news that AOL is settling a class action suit over their AOL 5.0 software, which usurped people's dial-up networking settings when installed. There's a website for the suit and a news article about the settlement. Of course, you have to admit you use AOL.

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  1. Re:Sick Numbers by geekoid · · Score: 3, Interesting

    exactly why I feel lawyers fees should be preset by tha bar. as an exapmple, lawyers would get 30% of the settlement, or an equal share, which ever is less.
    Class action lawsuit do not benefit the consumer. Imagine if everyone who installed AOL 5.0 got a shot in court? lets say each one got 50,000 dollars, plus expences, that would total up to a hell of a lot more then 15,000,000.

    Now itwhat? 6 million divided by 20,000,000 million users? and its a tierd pay off.
    Which really piises me off. because I fixed my own problem, I get less money.

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  2. and for those of us who work for other ISPs... by Artifex · · Score: 4, Interesting

    and who had to do dialup support back when this came out, and had customers bitching and moaning at US because they were dumb enough to pop a CD someone mailed them into their computer... as always, there will be nothing.

    I swear, we should have kept track of the hours spent, and then billed AOL or something.

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