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Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus
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Fox settling so they won't have to go to court has two major downsides for Fox;
1) As long as anyone has a case that's strong enough to get Fox into a courtroom, Fox will have to keep settling those, or this payment was kind of for nothing. Even if they think they would win the case.
2) Anyone who thinks they might have that much of a case has now been shown that there's sweet settlement money to be made.
Settlements are a lot more attractive than Fox being told to pay for damages in court, because it's pretty easy to drag out the process of actually paying for damages for an eternity.
On the other hand, settlement money is actual guaranteed money in hand, fast. You don't even have to go through the legal process, which by itself can take ages.