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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: In praise of vultures (06 May 2026)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/06/champerty-loves-company/
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If your group wins a lawsuit that prevents 13.6m tons of carbon emissions every year, it will get 13.6 million credits for every year that plant would have run. That would certainly drive the commercial imaginations of many otherwise disinterested parties to find carbon-reduction measures. If we're going to revive dubious medieval practices like indulgences, why not #champerty, too?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champerty_and_maintenance
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Medieval courts called this #champerty; today, we call it #LitigationFinance: investing in other peoples' grievances against deep-pocketed monsters, in the expectation of reaping huge cash payouts.
On paper, litigation finance seems like a neat solution to a messy problem. The bigger a company is, the worse the abuses it commits - and the more it can be made to pay for its sins.
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