Entertainment industry legal shit is beyond stupid. I’ve heard of one person’s pirated music and movie collection that exceeded the GDP of most first world countries, going by the numbers the industry gets awarded in civil suits. They literally just tell the courts how much money they’d like and it gets rubber stamped.
If you have money and an army of good attorneys, you usually get what you want.
> pirated music and movie collection that exceeded the GDP of most first world countries
On a similar premise, there is a novel where aliens have been pirating music from Earth and are contemplating their options with respect to their legal liabilities.
There was a meme a while back (which was completely accurate), about how the minimum sentence for uploading a Michael Jackson album was less than the sentence the doctor got for literally killing Michael Jackson.
If you have money and an army of good attorneys, you usually get what you want.