class action lawsuit

A few people have filed lawsuits against the RIAA for racketeering in the past, though these charges have always been dismissed.

In one such case, where the filed charges were dismissed over the summer, new claims were filed again charging the RIAA with racketeering for extortion, mail fraud and wire fraud in its ongoing efforts involving weakly supported threats against alleged file sharers demanding money to avoid being sued.

Datamation: "What did Ballmer know and when did he know it? That's arguably the biggest question in the Microsoft "Vista Capable" class-action lawsuit being heard by a federal judge in a Seattle court."

We had already pointed out one class action lawsuit filed against EA for its use of SecuROM DRM on the game Spore, but it appears that others are getting in on the act as well.

GamePolitics has news of two more class action lawsuits filed against EA over its DRM choices.

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We Americans sure do love filing lawsuits for just about any reason. The latest is a guy who has sued AOL for putting text ads in his email messages, claiming that because he pays for his AOL account (that might be his first mistake), these ads are "fraud, unjust enrichment" and a violation of California business codes.

He's trying to turn it into a class action lawsuit as well. Here's another suggestion: switch your email account.

With the news coming out that some purchasers of the video game Spore have filed a class action lawsuit against EA for its inclusion of SecuROM DRM, it's reaching the point where you have to wonder if this is becoming EA's "rootkit" moment.

The parallels are there. Both involved an overly draconian form of DRM that severely limited how a "purchased" product could be used.

Microsoft said it wanted its new advertising campaign featuring Jerry Seinfeld to "spark a new conversation".

And it did, provoking hundreds of news stories and thousands of blog posts. Whether it was the kind of conversation Microsoft wanted is another matter.

My own blog post began by asking: "On which planet does this advert make any sense?"

This is hardly the first time we've seen such a case. In fact, the issue of whether or not companies can force their consumers to go to binding arbitration (which sides with the company somewhere around 95% of the time) over filing a class action lawsuit has been decided in favor of the consumers' rights to file the lawsuits over and over and over again.

A Kansas man has filed what he hopes will become a class action lawsuit against Time Warner Cable. The company requires subscribers of premium channels to rent a cable box from the company instead of allowing them to use their own, which he considers to be an illegal tying arrangement that is barred by the FCC.

In a preliminary ruling Monday, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Bonnie Sabraw said Sprint Nextel must pay California mobile-phone consumers $18.2 million as part of a class-action lawsuit challenging early termination fees.

Though the decision could be appealed, it's the first in the country to declare the fees illegal...