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by dctoedt 679 days ago
> One frivolous lawsuit destroys the revenue from multiple happy customers.

And there's little or no downside for freelancing plaintiffs' lawyers to file questionable lawsuits in the hope of extracting a nuisance-value settlement. So the mentality tends to be, what the hell, let's give it a shot. (A.k.a. "moral hazard.")