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• Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Well for starters, those 100k would be spread all over legal jurisdictions, like even different countries. So you would need a representative certified to practice law in each of those jurisdictions. And of course the laws are different, so each case would be different. And the people you are suing have relatively little money to pay in compensation. The number of people needed to pull that off would be so high that the cost would be drastically larger than the potential financial gains. And since the board of directors have a fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders, they would have to put a stop to it. The shareholders care little for the long term potential gains of such an enormous expense.

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  • Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think you massively underestimate how much money you can make with cease and desist cases. And how little it costs to send letters in bulk to people it could apply to.

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    • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You can trick people into paying… but if you are talking people who pirate media, your sucess rate will be pretty low. Legally, cease and desist letters do nothing on thier own other than prove you notified them. Any free defense lawyer would argue that thier client didn’t believe the sender had any right to make the request, and the send provided no legal proof. But again, even ifnthey could get say 100k from each person running one of these. It wouldn’t pay they law firm bills, not even close. It would be a major expense.

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      • Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        These are copy and paste letters, they take a few minutes per case top. You act as if once such letter costs more than a freaking murder case defense.

        What do you think happens when you get such a letter and argue like that? They just drop the ball?

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