May 3, 2014
A software product is sold a couple of hundred thousand times. Nevertheless c't lab tests indicate that it is useless. We therefore found it appropriate to call it "Placebo Software". The distributor sued us. In a summary proceeding the court decided that the short review lacked sufficient facts to enable the reader to assess our judgement. Thus we will now provide more data. We have disassembled the program: it does not contain code that would be able to provide the advertised functionality.
Old story, but heise.de got a lot of attention through it. Even if their forums are full of trolls, the Heise publishing company fought many important legal fights since then. Many readers complain about decreasing quality.