Yes they have been sued. I&#x27;m only responding because I&#x27;m getting more downvotes.<p>This isn&#x27;t the best example, just the first thing I found in Google <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zdnet.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;nebuad-isps-named-in-class-action-lawsuit&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.zdnet.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;nebuad-isps-named-in-class-acti...</a> they settled for 2.4 million. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;NebuAd#Class_action_lawsuit" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;NebuAd#Class_action_lawsuit</a><p>I&#x27;m not going to waste my Friday night looking up old lawsuits to save a few HN reputation points. But I can tell you, I remember first reading about this stuff ~1999 when ISPs wanted to get their content in front of the Internet, but I don&#x27;t remember the exact details. I&#x27;ve been following Boardwatch, WIRED, Techdirt, Digg, Slashdot, TechMeme and TechCrunch since then and consider myself relatively informed. I thought we were beyond this by now, 15 years later, but apparently I was wrong!