Re:Class action lawsuit filed against Lenovo over Superfish
by bradleyjg on Monday May 11, 2015 @03:21PM
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Thank you for the reply.
Without writing an entire law review article in the comments, I'd say if no government (state or federal) can be bothered, given that they could almost certainly get a fine for less than $4 million (that's a lot of GS-11 man-hours) then reliance on the reputation economy seems like a good alternative.
And while discovery can be useful for getting information, in this case the information was publicized based on the workings of a different reputation economy (the security research community).
There may be some case that slip through the cracks, but I am unconvinced that the sui generis (to the US) opt-out class action mass tort system does more good than harm.
Without writing an entire law review article in the comments, I'd say if no government (state or federal) can be bothered, given that they could almost certainly get a fine for less than $4 million (that's a lot of GS-11 man-hours) then reliance on the reputation economy seems like a good alternative.
And while discovery can be useful for getting information, in this case the information was publicized based on the workings of a different reputation economy (the security research community).
There may be some case that slip through the cracks, but I am unconvinced that the sui generis (to the US) opt-out class action mass tort system does more good than harm.