Comment Re:How does it NOT? (Score 1) 83
If Microsoft wasn't the "bad guy", why offer a settlement less than two weeks later?
To avoid court costs.
And you don't know that they offered a settlement. MS could have simply told them to STFU or they'd be countersued for X, Y, and Z. Maybe MS threatened to publicly release evidence that showed they were actively aiding and abetting the malware shit MS was called in to clean up.
You can blindly hate MS all you want, but no-ip and its siblings have a less than stellar reputation themselves.