More Class Action Lawsuits Against Sneaky Install Adware Firms
from the just-in-time-for-the-holidays dept
Just in time for the holidays, there's been yet another class action lawsuit filed against a bunch of the more well known adware makers: 180solutions, DirectRevenue and eXact Advertising. Of course, there are already class action suits in progress against (at least) Direct Revenue and 180Solutions. While the end result of class action lawsuits rarely do much to help those actually harmed (the lawyers tend to make out nicely, though), we noted in the past that the class action suit against DirectRevenue was causing advertisers to bail out. The plaintiffs were sending subpoenas to those advertisers, and the last thing they wanted was to be a part of such a lawsuit, apparently. It's an unintended effect, of course, but too many advertisers have hid behind pretend ignorance about what these adware firms were really doing with their surreptitious installs.
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Class Action Lawsuits Against Sneaky Install Adwar
DirecTV was recently fined something like 5 million dollars because on of their marketing companies was ignoring "do not call" lists. Companies need to be held responsible for ANY "agent" acting on their behalf. This should also include any spammer emailing using "free $500 walmart card", or "get a free ipod" etc etc etc.
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FORCED ADVERTISING
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CLASS ACTION SUIT AGAINST SPYAXE!!!
If you are interested in suing the responsible parties involved in spyaxe's illegal advertising campaign, please visit
http://suespyaxe.blogspot.com.
The purpose of the blog is to ban together as victims and establish a group large enough to take significant legal action. We hope to persuade an attorney or firm to take our case pro bono, but we're willing to do whatever it takes to bring down SpyAxe.com and all involved parties. Please spread the word to every forum you visit that mentions these malicious individuals.
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