FTC Acts on Deceptive Peer to Peer Complaint
Last semester, I blogged about a complaint I helped to research and write for Center for Democracy and Technology. The complaint was against deceptive download websites. These guys would advertise that they offered “100% legal downloads” while just giving out freely available copies of Kazaa and other filesharing software. This deceived consumers into thinking their $24.95 went to buy a license to download music using Kazaa.
And today, the Federal Trade Commission, having acted on our complaint, got an injunction against one of the operators. This bans them from using their deceptive practices. They’re seeking to have the website pay back money to consumers and notify consumers that they were deceived.
Awesome.
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