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Maybe I'm just being a conspiracy theorist here because I'm right now wasting my time getting deposed in a drawn out lawsuit that has nothing to do with the law and everything to do with spite, but you don't have to win a lawsuit to win a lawsuit. To win a lawsuit you'd have to prove that Match.com either didn't honor DMCA requests, or that their business model itself is built around copyright infringement.
To get your judgement you have to prove that you've got damages. Damages doesn't mean some poor guy thought he was talking to someone, it means you were unable to sell your bitches to men for masturbatory purposes because said men knew that finding those pictures on match.com was a free alternative. In what fucking universe?
To be honest, Match.com loses money from catfishing, the models and producers lose absolutely nothing. Catfishing hurts the consumer trust in match.com, why would they be somehow involved in making it happen? And why wouldn't they just use pictures of regular bitches? Those work better anyway.
Now class action lawsuits happen all the time. The lawyer usually gets half while the other half is distributed as chump change among a ton of people. What will also happen is one person kind of acts as the main defendant and it's 1/3 them, 1/3 the lawyer and 1/3 distributed to the other 100 "victims". (Fair right?). They're easy for a lawyer to take a gamble on because it's easy to round up people to get involved and that provides a lot of leverage.
Now I'm not accusing anybody of anything, but I think any reasonable person can see that Match.com is squeaky clean here. I think they could also see that Match.com has a financial stake in not having anything in the news that will highlight the small portion of their users who have fake profiles. They're not at all in the wrong, but it may very well be in their best interest to settle quietly ASAP.
I'm not saying I have any proof that this particular case is a form of extortion, or that the people involved are cunts, but it's really easy to do. Some lawyers just kick back and wait for innocents to shake down.
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