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I don't think that they will go bankrupt. Rightscorp is a loss making shell company which remains in business due to regular 'donations' from copyright holders.

Their remit is to engage in aggressive, quasi-legal practices intended to frighten people away from the sharing of copyright material without having the legal repercussions from using these tactics backfiring on the copyright holders themselves.

While this lawsuit seems crazy and immoral, there is method in Rightscorp's apparent madness and badness, and it is certainly consistent with their other practices. This lawsuit will hit the news just like all their other antics, and create a general level of FUD that will induce people to think twice before they download copyright material, just in case they find themselves at the wrong end of a lawsuit that they cannot afford to defend.




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