&gt; Similar to e.g. how property tax works in the US, you would pay something like 1% of the value of your &quot;property&quot; in taxes each year -- and when you sue, you can only sue for how much of that &quot;value&quot; was taken away from you (with perhaps treble damages or something). Then, all of a sudden, it&#x27;s not enough to claim that your copyrights are worth $18B to sue Google for $9B - you have to have actually paid $180M&#x2F;year or so in taxes in the last few years to make that claim.<p>So poor small time developer can&#x27;t sue any large company for a substantial payout because they can&#x27;t afford the $N x 1% fee? I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;ll work.<p>The real solution to this is time. We&#x27;ll eventually get a new set of judges and legislators that understand technology. The former is all that&#x27;s really needed though their extended terms make change very slow<p>Once you&#x27;ve got level headed judges willing to throw out bullshit cases and impose punitive fees on trolls, this entire problem goes away. Until then, it makes financial sense for trolls to operate and even legitimate companies have to play that game to survive.