( January 6, 2026, 1:56 PM EST) -- SAN DIEGO — A group of defendants referred to as the “Konnektive defendants” who are alleged to have provided software and other services used in a “free trial scam” will pay $2 million to settle consumers’ California Consumer Legal Remedies Act (CLRA) claims following a bench trial and Jan. 5 determination by a California federal magistrate judge that the consumers failed to prove their CLRA claims “by a preponderance of the evidence”; the parties agreed to the trial in order to decide whether the settlement amount would be $2 million or $5 million....