class action lawsuit

It seems you can find people to file a class action lawsuit against just about any crazy thing these days.

The latest, as pointed out by Eric Goldman (with the complaint embedded below), is someone filing a class action lawsuit against eBay claiming all sorts of violations for the way eBay's auction system has always worked.

Here's the basic issue. eBay developed a rather clever system back when it launched to handle bidding.

You may recall that, yesterday, we wrote about the class action lawsuit filed against dentist Stacy Makhnevich.

Makhnevich used ethically and legally dubious forms from the organization Medical Justice, to demand the future copyrights on any reviews a patient might write about them.

A federal judge has dismissed a class-action lawsuit filed against Apple and some advertising networks over data collection that allegedly took place without the users' "consent or knowledge."

Well, well. Following a research paper that claimed that a company named Paxfire was teaming up with some ISPs to hijack search terms and take people directly to certain websites, a class action lawsuit was quickly filed.

A few months ago the U.S.

Copyright Group (USCG), who pioneered the mass-BitTorrent lawsuits in the United States, were themselves sued for fraud, abuse and extortion.

Last week, we wrote about a lawsuit filed against Paxfire for supposedly teaming up with ISPs hijacking browser searches for profit.

The idea was that search terms never made it to the search engine in question, but rather automatically directed users to pages paid for by marketers.

Over the last few days a story has been developing about an undeletable tracking cookie used by KISSmetrics, a website analytics company.

This company and more than 20 of its clients have now had a class action lawsuit filed against them. The plaintiffs claim that the Privacy Act and Electronics Communications Privacy Act have been broken, that their personal property (chattel) has been trespassed on, and that the defendants have violated unfair competition law.

A couple months ago, we wrote about the class action lawsuit from a family who discovered that the company from whom they had rented a laptop, Aaron's, had secretly installed spying software that would surreptitiously turn on the laptop's webcam, take pictures, and send them back to the company.

As we've all seen over the last thirty days or so, Sony has handled their month-long data breach/pwnage with all the grace and humility that one expects from an out-of-touch megacorporation.

Starting few hours ago, Comcast subscribers began reporting issues with accessing The Pirate Bay.

Although downtime is nothing new for users of the popular BitTorrent site, this time around the connectivity issues appear to be affecting only a select group.