Important Legal Notice Regarding Commission Junction?s Affiliate Network
 

From Settlement Recovery Center v. ValueClick settlement <[email protected]>
reply-to [email protected]
date Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 12:21 AM
subject Settlement Recovery Center v. ValueClick settlement
mailed-by bliemail.com

If you joined or were a member of the affiliate marketing networks operated by ValueClick, Inc., Commission Junction, Inc. and/or Be Free (collectively, ?Defendants?), between April 20, 2003 and the present, you may be a class member in Settlement Recovery Center et al. v. ValueClick, Inc. et al., No. 2:07-cv-02638-FMC-CTx, a lawsuit which is pending in the Central District of California. The Settlement Notice informs you of the Court's certification of a class for settlement purposes; the nature of the claims alleged; your right to participate in, or exclude yourself from, the class; a proposed settlement; and how you can claim an award of advertising credits under the settlement or object to the settlement.

The proposed settlement will resolve claims that Defendants failed to adequately monitor Commission Junction?s Network for the use by third parties of software that does not comply with Commission Junction?s (?CJ?) Publisher Code of Conduct and that is intended to steal or divert commissions from publishers on CJ?s network (?Non-compliant Software?), failed to adequately monitor or prevent third parties from engaging in the theft or ?hijacking? of commissions from Advertisers and Publishers on CJ?s Network, and failed to make sufficient disclosures regarding the existence of Non-compliant Software and commission theft, resulting in losses to both advertisers and publishers on the CJ Network.

The proposed settlement will provide a monetary recovery to eligible class members. For class members that currently maintain an account on the CJ Network will receive payment through payments or credits deposited or applied to their CJ accounts; eligible class members that no longer have accounts on the Commission Junction Network will receive a check for an equal amount.

If you are a member of the class, your legal rights are affected by whether you act or do not act. You should review the Settlement Notice as soon as possible as there are several important deadlines that you must meet to take certain actions in connection with this proposed settlement. In particular, the deadline for filing an objection or excluding yourself from the proposed settlement is September 30, 2008. For further information, please refer to the Settlement Notice.



For a copy of the Settlement Notice, click on the link, or visit the case website at www.CJSettlement.com

Very interesting, didn't know, thanks for posting. Here comes some extra money :)

So from the looks of it they plan on being able to figure out how much revenues were lost from affiliates as a result of spyware/adware? How do they plan on doing that?
WG

Thats easy! everyone knows its 30&#37; :)

I have a personal/mainstream site that was down from mid-April to end of June - in July the earnings with ValueClick were 2.5x higher than in March and the previous months, with one third as many visitors as before... does it mean that this could be the reason?