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Arguable, poor people make great targets because they're less likely to be able to defend themselves.

Ah an RIAA rep, welcome to Hacker News. :)

Those people are "judgment proof" because even if you get a judgment that says they owe you a billion dollars, you'll never collect a dime.

That's step 1.

Step 2 is using the billion dollar judgement as a precedent when suing people with a little bit of money.