"The companies in question — Elpida, Hitachi, Hynix, Infineon, Micron, Mitsubishi, Mosel, Nanya, NEC, Samsung, Toshiba and Winbond — were accused of artificially fixing the price for DRAM between 1998 and 2002, causing millions of Americans to pay too much for DRAM and for electronics containing DRAM."
Yep. They're the legal equivalent of a pyramid scheme, except there are only 2 levels, and the top level has only 1 person. The plaintiffs all get 5 bucks, the lawyer gets 5 million. Seems fair.