Tip sharing lawsuits aside, Starbucks is also combating several lawsuits from customers.
And Republicans have led or championed a slew of legal challenges to the law, including two cases that went to the Supreme Court and a cost-sharing lawsuit still causing uncertainty.
A1 More File-Sharing Lawsuits The Recording Industry Association sued 532 people it accuses of large-scale copyright infringement, its third round of lawsuits against music file sharers.
A Super Bowl commercial for Pepsi's offer of free downloads through iTunes showed targets of the first file-sharing lawsuits, including a girl who says she was "prosecuted for downloading music free".
The RIAA still sucks and is still wasting everyone's time with file-sharing lawsuits.
But experts say firms are still wary of sharing, in case it leads to lawsuits from customers and antitrust watchdogs.
People who might have banded together as plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit – sharing the costs of fighting a large corporation or finding a lawyer willing to shoulder those costs in hopes of a share of a payout on behalf of thousands of plaintiffs, not just a single individual – must act individually in arbitration.
A1 Millions Still Sharing Files Despite lawsuits filed against 261 people accused of illicitly distributing music over the Internet, millions of others continue the practice.
"The untested, but universally shared, assumption," the lawsuit says, "has been that writers over the age of 40 are inherently incapable of writing in the manner that is attractive to the younger audiences the networks covet".
He sold more than 577,000 shares, the lawsuit said, worth $35.2 million over a three-year period before the bankruptcy.
Senior executives at Global Crossing began efforts to disguise the company's difficulties months earlier than previously disclosed, giving them more time to sell their shares, a lawsuit says.
