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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 8651346" data-attributes="member: 19675">This is a horrible idea.  There’s a reason why some lawyers in a given field can justify higher fees.  It’s not a 1:1 relationship, but in many ways, you get what you pay for.Do you really want to trust your copyright case- potentially your livelihood- on a ping pong ball in a hopper?  Tangentially: would you rather hire a criminal defense attorney or use the public defender’s office.Attorneys aren’t interchangeable.  There are different levels of competence.  There are different levels of resources.Throwing myself under the bus, I had a band come to me looking for help on a piracy case (mid-1990s).  They had a record label deal with a small company, and their first single was doing OK.  It was also being pirated 3x more than it was being legitimately sold, mostly on Russian websites.  The best I could do was ask the CC companies to stop processing that site’s charges- basically, slow, ineffective whack-a-mole.  Anything truly effective would have required someone with more resources and connections than I had then.</blockquote>