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by potatolicious 4851 days ago
> "I don't really understand what Rap Genius hopes to gain here."

Rap Genius isn't the ones doing the suing. Rap Genius wrote about it, which caused Heroku to come clean. I think Rap Genius already got what they hoped to get (i.e., exposure, official comment, etc).

> "I don't see any obvious or intentional fraud."

You don't need intent to be sued - you only need to have caused damages to the plaintiffs. What Heroku has effectively done was:

1 - misrepresented their product in a substantial way.

2 - "overcharged" their customers substantially by giving them less performance than they paid for.

Both of these are material damages, and there's a more than reasonable case for Heroku's customers to recover this money.

This isn't a criminal case here, there doesn't even have to be fraud (as defined in the criminal law context).