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]]>Sep 23rd 2008 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/Sep 23rd 2008 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/Sep 23rd 2008 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/Sep 23rd 2008 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/Sep 23rd 2008 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/Sep 23rd 2008 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/Sep 23rd 2008 10:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/Sep 23rd 2008 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/Sep 23rd 2008 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/getting charged to receive a text message sucks !
Glad I'm on the other side of the Atlantic :-p]]>Sep 23rd 2008 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/Sep 23rd 2008 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/Sep 23rd 2008 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/Sep 24th 2008 7:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/There is a word for that let me think, oh yeah,.. STEALING ... :)

And as far as the $7M fund goes; how many people will really take the effort to get they're dime back for each spam message they received? Let me think; find out where to go, write a letter, postage, envelope, wait wait wait wait (like waiting for a Mail IN Rebate),... ah, my 20 cents are back.

So not only will hardly anybody collect, but the bastards will get away with spamming as well, under the pretense that "they did setup a fund for it" ... yeah ...]]>Sep 23rd 2008 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/Sep 23rd 2008 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/
What it's really about is the trial lawyers who negotiated the settlement. They'll get a big fat chunk of it, and the individual consumer gets, in effect, dick.

I'm not sure that big business needs any more breaks, but I think the whole concept of the class action lawsuit needs to be reworked. Right now it's just a cash cow for members of the legal profession.]]>Sep 23rd 2008 11:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/Sep 23rd 2008 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/Sep 23rd 2008 11:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/
If they "vehemently deny" any wrongdoing, then doesn't that mean they have no issue doing it again?

So they're paying damages back, but are not getting penalized???]]>Sep 23rd 2008 6:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/Sep 23rd 2008 3:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/23/timberland-and-gsi-cough-up-7-million-to-settle-text-spam-lawsu/Sep 23rd 2008 3:13PM