Judge Says Paypal's Arbitration Rules Unfair

MooRogue points to this article in today's San Francisco Chronicle, which reports U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel's ruling that Paypal "attempts to isolate itself from challenges," noting "Judge Fogel also refused to dismiss the class-action lawsuit going against Paypal." I guess I've been lucky with PayPal so far, but I know a few people who haven't.

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Paypals response:

[geekoid]

"This is totally unfounded. Just because people use our system, doesn't mean we need to bear any responsibility for what goes on with are system! Jeez, you people are all acting like money is important and should be regulated..."

Another Article, Same Jist

[Murdock037]

Nice to see Slashdot isn't getting more than a few stories a day from the Register at this point.

But just in case you love the vulture, they still beat 'em to it:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/27028.htm l

not a troll but

[evacuate_the_bull]

mentioning paypal on slashdot is almost worse than mentioning MS....this is going to get ugly

Let's make PayPal Open Source!

[Anonymous Coward]

I mean, who else but the experienced and well-travelled Open Source developer community would be better qualified to improve a system such as PayPal?

Arbitration could follow a similar methodology as the one implemented for GPL infractions in public projects.

The reliability and trustworthiness of PayPal would be greatly enhanced by having the honest, dedicated, and hard-working developers of the Open Source community oversee and develop a new PayPal system.

Only when we encourage the Open Source community of developers to follow their dreams can we seize control back from entities such Citibank.

Wha...?

[xenoweeno]

There can't be that many people who think that PayPal sucks!

Re: PalPal democratizes taking credit cards

[Black Parrot]

I thought it was the 38 Special that democratized taking credit cards.