Lawyers <i>always</i> ask for way more money than they expect to get. In almost every situation like this in the past they settle for 10% of the amount and everyone walks away happy.<p>This is like the endless use of maximum sentences in headlines: &quot;hacker faces 100 years in prison!&quot;... when they almost always end up getting &lt;10yrs at the end of the trial. Sad to see HN fall into this trap once again.<p>Whether he&#x27;s wrong in demanding compensation is a fair debate, don&#x27;t get me wrong, but I don&#x27;t think he expects to get anywhere near that price.