My wife and I, both received our checks today from the Lead Counsel for the Plaintiffs in the CD MAP Antitrust litigation; Kohn, Swift, & Graf, P.C. This is the scandlous situation where unsuspecting customers were routinely and unfairly charged high prices for their CDs, due to an illegal collaboration of the labels and retailers to price fix. You can read the details of the lawsuit and the settlement at this website.
In our family, we both took a few minutes, filed a claim via the Internet and thereby received two checks for the same amount. As according to the US legal system, we were both probably cheated by the illegal activities inflicted by the members of the "music industry" while they could get away with it.
Needless to say, this money will be put to good use towards the purchase of blank optical media for my bleeding edge burners and controversial softwares.
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