McDonald's was selling their coffee at temperatures around 190 degrees Fahrenheit. This is much hotter than coffee you would brew at home and is to hot for human consumption. They purposely turned the temp up so high because their marketing department found that it increased the aroma and in turn increase sales in the restaurants
They ignored over 700 complaints and the injury to the 79-year old woman required skin grafts on much of her inner thighs, buttocks, and genitals. Is that what the public should expect from spilled coffee?
The award was the equivalent to two days of US coffee sales and the Judge reduced the amount to only 3 times the cost of her injuries.
I do not feel that this was a frivolous lawsuit and this 79-year old was not looking to get rich. Spilling the coffee was her fault. The fact that it caused 3rd degree burn was McDonald's fault.
Statement by Matthew Oppenheim on Professor Felten
The Secure Digital Music Initiative Foundation (SDMI) does not - nor did it ever - intend to bring any legal action against Professor Felten or his co-authors. We sent the letter because we felt an obligation to the watermark licensees who had voluntarily submitted their valuable inventions to SDMI for testing.
For the record, the Recording Industry Association of America, one of the founding members of SDMI, strongly believes in academic freedom and Freedom of Speech. This issue, however, is about the competing interests of scientists - those of the watermark technology companies that have invented new technologies and those of Professor Felton who seeks to describe how to circumvent those technologies. To that end, we have encouraged Professor Felten and the technology companies to resolve this matter. We leave it in their hands to do so.
Further questions should be directed to Verance at 858-677-6522
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McDonald's was selling their coffee at temperatures around 190 degrees Fahrenheit. This is much hotter than coffee you would brew at home and is to hot for human consumption. They purposely turned the temp up so high because their marketing department found that it increased the aroma and in turn increase sales in the restaurants
They ignored over 700 complaints and the injury to the 79-year old woman required skin grafts on much of her inner thighs, buttocks, and genitals. Is that what the public should expect from spilled coffee?
The award was the equivalent to two days of US coffee sales and the Judge reduced the amount to only 3 times the cost of her injuries.
I do not feel that this was a frivolous lawsuit and this 79-year old was not looking to get rich. Spilling the coffee was her fault. The fact that it caused 3rd degree burn was McDonald's fault.
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Statement by Matthew Oppenheim on Professor Felten
The Secure Digital Music Initiative Foundation (SDMI) does not - nor did it ever - intend to bring any legal action against Professor Felten or his co-authors. We sent the letter because we felt an obligation to the watermark licensees who had voluntarily submitted their valuable inventions to SDMI for testing.
For the record, the Recording Industry Association of America, one of the founding members of SDMI, strongly believes in academic freedom and Freedom of Speech. This issue, however, is about the competing interests of scientists - those of the watermark technology companies that have invented new technologies and those of Professor Felton who seeks to describe how to circumvent those technologies. To that end, we have encouraged Professor Felten and the technology companies to resolve this matter. We leave it in their hands to do so.
Further questions should be directed to Verance at 858-677-6522