we get an e-mail saying congratulations, here s $3.25 to spend at the itunes store. yeah, it s frustrating and i agree. i ve seen it happen many times. how this plays out is along those lines and i don t think it s right. it s likely apple will want to make this go away. they don t want me and you and others in the media to talk about this and go through discovery. they want to get rid of this in all likelihood. that probably means eventually there will be a settlement or a number of settlements. consumers, some will get something back. it won t be a lot. but to your point, the lawyers, they usually clean up. i don t think that s right. yeah, clean up would be an understatement there. you make a good point. so many of these class action lawyers know when they re going after a company as big as apple with billions and billions of
dollars of cash sitting there that don t want the p.r. nightmare, it s a little bit more about the hold-up game and the shakedown game than it is about whether apple did anything right or wrong. completely agree. the people that we re talking about that bring the cases, they re plaintiffs, class action lawyers. different than those on the defense side that represent the companies. the plaintiffs class action lawyers, you re right. they bring these claims. they know the companies will want to settle. they re going to make money whether they settle or whether it goes to trial, which is unlikely. in some countries, in england, for example, they have what are called loser pay rules. that causes lawyers to be very careful about filing claims. they could have to forfeit the fees and the loser has to pay the fees. some say we should take a second look at the rules here in the u.s. to prevent this from happening in the future. the trial bar spends a lot of money on lobbyists on capitol hil
never post anything on line. never send an e-mail or text that you would not mind your mom hearing at your trial. and if ashley madison fraudulently took $19 with the people thinking that private information was wiped and it didn t, it could put ashley madison in a heap of trouble. in the long run, maybe divorce lawyers will be the beneficency of new business. in new york, for example, it is a no fault state. used to have to prove infedellity or physical harm and now, they finally joined the rest of the nation and gotten out of the dark ages and now it is no fault. but the divorce lawyers will get business. it is divorce lawyers and class action lawyers and