So being curious how insane Patrick's claims are, I didn't a little research an some rough math.

The average cost to get an ISP supbeona in a John Doe case averages $20,000 for each subpoena. It can dip lower, as low as $15k. Expenses balloon from there, because a lawyer and a judge must issue a subpoena in every state for each ISP.

This is for every individual John Doe subpoena. So the legal action that Fatty is proposing, *just with the 300 IPs he claims he has would amount to between $4.5 to $6 million dollars.

I shouldn't have to explain why a lawyer wouldn't work on contingency for millions for dollars in legal fees alone. So in order to file a civil suit, frivolous or not, against 300 John Doe would require a retainer of hundred of thousand of dollars just to start with. Patrick would have to pay those millions himself, knowing that a group of anonymous trolls is not going to come anywhere near likely to group more than a single-digit percent of that.

"Clearing six figures" isn't going to cut it for this gut.