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by gortok 33 days ago
Having gone through the court system for a civil matter, I can tell you that “get a judgment” is a lot of time and money in even the easiest of cases, and let’s go at it from the person’s end who has to fight this, and let’s just focus on cases it’s a big tech company vs. a mom-and-pop or just a random person — who hasn’t actually done anything wrong. The big company has the money to sue, and now all of a sudden if you don’t want a default judgment, you have to spend money on a lawyer to fight the lawsuit, and guess what? It’s not as if it’s free to fight a lawsuit. It’s expensive to fight it.

The merits win in a lawsuit only if you don’t run out of money first.