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Ya but $1MM for a generic legal defense fund created and thus owned by GitHub (read: Microsoft) is pretty neutered. I’m sure their lawyers charge between $200-750/hr (pretty standard for a decent lawyer), so $1MM isn’t going to go very far. If they employ lawyers full time for this at 200-500k/yr, there won’t be many working on this team for very long.

Defending a medium complexity case against a deep picker (RIAA) will easy surpass that, and that’s just a single case.

The question is how can this be sustainable and not a trivial token?



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