Company settles 'spyware' lawsuit for $7.5 mln

[ronjor]

-{ Quote: "SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intermix Media Inc. has agreed to pay the state of New York $7.5 million to settle a lawsuit charging it with bundling hidden "spyware" along with millions of programs it gave away for free, the company said on Tuesday." }-
Story (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=582&e=2&u=/nm/20050615/wr_nm/media_intermix_dc)

[siliconman01]

I hope other DAs latch on to this concept and starting hitting other spyware/adware proliferators with suits like this. Drive the muthers into the ground financially...perhaps that will help squelch them once and for all. ;D

[controlmind]

-{ Quote: "I hope other DAs latch on to this concept and starting hitting other spyware/adware proliferators with suits like this. Drive the muthers into the ground financially...perhaps that will help squelch them once and for all. ;D" }-

Yes, hopefully ;D

controlmind