Class action suits are not a scam, you just don't understand the purpose. If a company does $10 dollars of damage to you, you won't sue them. But if the company does $10 of damage to a couple of thousand people, they can band together and make the company pay a few Million in damages and thus make sure it won't be repeated. If some comapny puts a DRM rootkit on an audio CD, the damage to your PC is small, and you won't sue them because a lawsuit would cost you a lot of money with little potential gain. But if a couple of thousand consumers get together and sue, they stand a chance to make a difference and punish the offending company. And they did: A class action suit is what dissuaded Sony (and anyone else) to ever try any DRM bullshit with audio CDs again.
"Well certainly with the Xbox 360, we had some challenges at the launch. Once we identified that we took control of it. We wanted to do it right by our customers. Our customers are very important to us." -Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb (10/2013). Note: RRoD was fixed with the Jasper-revision 3 years after the launch of 360
"People don't pay attention to a lot of the details."-Yusuf Mehdi explaining why Xbone DRM scheme would succeed
"Fortunately we have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity; it's called Xbox 360,”-Don Mattrick
"The region locking of the 3DS wasn't done for profits on games"-MDMAlliance
