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CJ Class Action Settlement Payments Made on Feb 9th, 2009

Feb 12, 2009
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Last summer, Commission Junction settled a Malware class action lawsuit for $1M.  According to the terms of the settlement (see www.cjsettlement.com) after the lawyers take their share (typically 30% I think), the remainder of the class action fund was to be split 70% to CJ publishers and 30% to advertisers, prorated based on the commissions generated between April 20, 2003 and July 22, 2008.

If you are a publisher who generated commissions during that time, you should log into your CJ account, click on the reports tab, and look in your Current Balance for February, 2009.  There you will see a credit amount listed under fees.  That is your share of the pie.

Don’t spend it all in one place :-)

Filed under: Adware, Spyware, Greynets, & Internet Fraud + Affiliate Marketing
  • http://www.imwave.com Adam Viener

    Yep, but the lawyers got paid!

    Same thing happened with the Google click fraud case, right, a small settlement makes the issue go away and the lawyers are happy.

    Adam

  • http://www.rhinofish.com Pat Grady

    It’s impossible to accurately know my real losses, but I’m gonna take a crazy wild guess and say this doesn’t cover it. Joke’s on me / us.

  • Greg Nelson

    I wondered what that free money was in there for…thanks for making me realize it was not free. Oh well…we did get a slice big enough to buy a few pies.

  • http://www.wiseaff.com Adam Viener

    Yum, Pie!

  • http://www.jimmydaniels.com Jimmy Daniels

    One can only hope that karma really does make everything come out even in the end. What a racket affiliate marketing really is.

  • http://www.get-in2.com Mike Hyland

    You gotta be kidding me as my 1/2 million clicks during all of that period generated me a total "Fees" amount of …. whalla… $1.42

    Hopefully someday soon that will buy me 2 shares of ValueClick stock!

  • Reno

    I was wondering why I received this credit in my CJ account.. I can defenitely buy a few pies but $186 does not make me take a week off on holiday =)