Gems from the judicial order to pay damages [1]:

>“The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.”

> —Spock, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982).

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> they exploit this anomaly by accusing individuals of illegally downloading a single pornographic video. Then they offer to settle—for a sum ... just below the cost of a bare-bones defense. For these individuals, resistance is futile; most reluctantly pay rather than have their names associated with illegally downloading porn. So now, copyright laws originally designed to compensate starving artists allow, starving attorneys in this electronic-media era to plunder the citizenry.

[1] https://popehat.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/PendaSanction...