HP has previously paid millions for bricking printers, but not this time.
  • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
    261·
    21 days ago

    I don’t understand how they can avoid monetary damages in a case where they explicitly damaged their customers devices under a known false pretext “dynamic security”.

    • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      21 days ago

      Because the case was completed by settlement not by a judge’s decision.

      And too no one shock

      Under the settlement agreement, HP doesn’t admit to any wrongdoing. … However, HP agreed to pay $5,000 each to Mobile Emergency Housing Corp., Performance Automotive & Tire Center, and David Justin Lynch, who was eventually added to the complaint, “to compensate them for the services they performed on behalf of the classes,” HP said. It will also pay $725,000 in attorneys’ fees and expenses.

      As always, the really winners in class action lawsuits are the lawyers.