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Re:Epic will pay off class-action loot-box settlement with i... by ccleve on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @01:23PM (#26240733)
The lawyers get real money, and the victims get fake money. That's the real scandal. Our tort system is broken.
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Re:Epic will pay off class-action loot-box settlement with i... by gruez on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @02:14PM (#26241531)
Is the risk-adjusted price that the lawyers are being paid unusually high? Lawyers being expensive doesn't really mean "Our tort system is broken".
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Re:Epic will pay off class-action loot-box settlement with i... by freeone3000 on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @03:06PM (#26242202)
It does, because it diverts money from the people who are actually harmed to people who advocate on their behalf; and raises the threshold for a class-action suit in general, as suits that are "too cheap" are not worth anyone's time.
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