On one hand the Rap Genius expose seemed like they got duped and mislead, but on...

rayiner · on March 9, 2013

Class action lawyering usually sound ambulance chasey, because any given person doesn't lose that much in a given instance and so the actual people harmed have little incentive to sue.

At the same time, it's an edge case in the economy. If you harm a large number of people a small amount, they won't sue you to recover for their injury.

lancefisher · on March 8, 2013

It's not really ambulance chasing if all he's after is a partial refund.

From the article:

As for Lehman, he wants some of the $20,000 his company pays Heroku each month returned. “We deserve some sort of refund here,” he says.

EDIT: I re-read the article, and it's not even clear that Rap Genius is part of this. Looks like a lawyer trying to drum up support.