<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>margalabargala</author><text>Not that concept, just our specific implementation.&lt;p&gt;If person A decides they don&amp;#x27;t like you, they can sue you over and over and cost you tens of thousands of dollars and never get that back. If you don&amp;#x27;t reply to each with a lawyer and spend time and money fighting, you lose even more money.&lt;p&gt;There are some bandaids like having someone declared a vexatious litigant, but that also requires time and money. If you owned some small business, someone could certainly bankrupt you before you could stop them.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know exactly what a solution looks like, but I do see this as a problem.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tiahura</author><text>How is it broken to require a defendant to respond to a lawsuit?</text></item><item><author>lisper</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;gt; They will have to respond to this&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Why?&lt;p&gt;They don&amp;#x27;t have to respond to the demand letter, but they do have to respond if a lawsuit if one is filed.  If they don&amp;#x27;t, it&amp;#x27;s a default judgement for the plaintiff.  (This is one of the things that is broken in the American legal system.  You can force someone to spend a lot of money by suing them even if your complaint has no merit.)&lt;p&gt;So while they don&amp;#x27;t &lt;i&gt;have&lt;/i&gt; to respond to a credible threat of a lawsuit, it would be prudent for them to do so because otherwise there is a real risk for them of having it cost a lot more.</text></item><item><author>oliwarner</author><text>&amp;gt; They will have to respond to this&lt;p&gt;Why? If they think they have the right to terminate your account, and you have no standing, why would you expect them not to ignore your lawyer in the very same way they ignore you?&lt;p&gt;Taking this to court might get their attention, but you also have to show grounds for why you get to override their decision. IANAL, but I don&amp;#x27;t see why Google isn&amp;#x27;t allowed to just say &amp;quot;nope, you&amp;#x27;re outta here&amp;quot; to anyone it damned well wants. Sucks, but it&amp;#x27;s their reputation to ruin.</text></item><item><author>rsync</author><text>Have your lawyer write a letter.&lt;p&gt;As in, a real legal demand with a complaint attached that is addressed to their counsel and includes estimates of monetary damages and alludes (not threatens) to the specific jurisdiction and court it would be submitted to for adjudication.&lt;p&gt;Send copies of this letter, by registered&amp;#x2F;certified mail, to several contacts.&lt;p&gt;They will have to respond to this and these responses will be &lt;i&gt;expensive&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;If you are in the right - even marginally so - your account will get fixed because it will be much too expensive to continue to ignore you.&lt;p&gt;Filling in web forms and emailing form addresses &lt;i&gt;costs google nothing&lt;/i&gt;.  It makes perfect sense that these actions (appear) to have identical results as doing nothing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google cancels Google Play publisher account and ends family’s source of income</title><url>https://medium.com/@appsrentables1/google-cancels-our-google-play-publisher-account-and-ends-my-familys-source-of-income-97d4e85cd046</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ajdude</author><text>IANAL but my guess is that it costs money for the defendant to respond to a lawsuit, so if company A wants person B to stop doing something, even if person B is within their legal right to do so, company A can still force person B to stop, because either person B goes bankrupt fighting it or person B ignores it and company A has the judgement in their favor.</text><parent_chain><item><author>tiahura</author><text>How is it broken to require a defendant to respond to a lawsuit?</text></item><item><author>lisper</author><text>&amp;gt; &amp;gt; They will have to respond to this&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Why?&lt;p&gt;They don&amp;#x27;t have to respond to the demand letter, but they do have to respond if a lawsuit if one is filed.  If they don&amp;#x27;t, it&amp;#x27;s a default judgement for the plaintiff.  (This is one of the things that is broken in the American legal system.  You can force someone to spend a lot of money by suing them even if your complaint has no merit.)&lt;p&gt;So while they don&amp;#x27;t &lt;i&gt;have&lt;/i&gt; to respond to a credible threat of a lawsuit, it would be prudent for them to do so because otherwise there is a real risk for them of having it cost a lot more.</text></item><item><author>oliwarner</author><text>&amp;gt; They will have to respond to this&lt;p&gt;Why? If they think they have the right to terminate your account, and you have no standing, why would you expect them not to ignore your lawyer in the very same way they ignore you?&lt;p&gt;Taking this to court might get their attention, but you also have to show grounds for why you get to override their decision. IANAL, but I don&amp;#x27;t see why Google isn&amp;#x27;t allowed to just say &amp;quot;nope, you&amp;#x27;re outta here&amp;quot; to anyone it damned well wants. Sucks, but it&amp;#x27;s their reputation to ruin.</text></item><item><author>rsync</author><text>Have your lawyer write a letter.&lt;p&gt;As in, a real legal demand with a complaint attached that is addressed to their counsel and includes estimates of monetary damages and alludes (not threatens) to the specific jurisdiction and court it would be submitted to for adjudication.&lt;p&gt;Send copies of this letter, by registered&amp;#x2F;certified mail, to several contacts.&lt;p&gt;They will have to respond to this and these responses will be &lt;i&gt;expensive&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;If you are in the right - even marginally so - your account will get fixed because it will be much too expensive to continue to ignore you.&lt;p&gt;Filling in web forms and emailing form addresses &lt;i&gt;costs google nothing&lt;/i&gt;.  It makes perfect sense that these actions (appear) to have identical results as doing nothing.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Google cancels Google Play publisher account and ends family’s source of income</title><url>https://medium.com/@appsrentables1/google-cancels-our-google-play-publisher-account-and-ends-my-familys-source-of-income-97d4e85cd046</url></story>