Same with the CD pricefixing lawsuit.
The companies were still engaging in bad activity.
I don’t join class action lawsuits but some people think getting a $10 credit slip is “good” because it is “free money”.
The states that piled on the CD lawsuit and the tobacco lawsuit thought it was cool too. Then they got paid off in cutout CDs while the lawyers took the cash.
Apple deleted songs from customers’ iPods
By Dan Simon @CNNTech December 4, 2014: 5:16 PM ET
http://money.cnn.com/2014/12/04/technology/apple-ipod-trial/index.html
Between 2007 and 2009, Apple routinely deleted music off of some customers’ iPods without telling them.
That’s according to an attorney representing plaintiffs in a class-action trial taking place this week. A class of 8 million iPod owners argue that Apple abused its monopoly power in the music industry to force out competition.
When iPod customers downloaded music from iTunes rivals, Apple (AAPL, Tech30) would force customers to reset their iPods, the attorney said. When the iPod was restored, the music they downloaded from competitors’ music stores would no longer be on their iPods.
Apple claims that the measures were taken to protect its contracts with the record labels...