I hate to say it, Sweno, but I doubt that's the case. More likely, they'll simply increase the minimum settlement fee -- instead of 1500 - 2500, they'll make it, say, 2000 - 3000 -- and then continue business as usual.
Filing the paperwork is tedious, but it's not terribly expensive, especially not when the odds are so good that people will pony up rather than go to court. Right now they're just trying to avoid the tedium, but so long as it's still profitable, they'll just pass the costs on.
And the filing costs cannot be made too expensive to make it worth it without denying basic rights to the populace at large, so there's not much hope that simple finances will kill this trend.
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs
Filing the paperwork is tedious, but it's not terribly expensive, especially not when the odds are so good that people will pony up rather than go to court. Right now they're just trying to avoid the tedium, but so long as it's still profitable, they'll just pass the costs on.
And the filing costs cannot be made too expensive to make it worth it without denying basic rights to the populace at large, so there's not much hope that simple finances will kill this trend.
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs