They will filibuster and or beaurocrat-ize away any will to pursue lawsuits, or they will offer token trivial compensation (which doesn’t nearly reflect the actual lost income)
Your “meh” apathy is what leads to the abuse of power by the larger parties
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_roo...
If your argument is that Sony is too big and has a monopoly on projectors - then antitrust laws exist.
We already have simple systems that handle "you broke my stuff" fairly well - why would we want to lean on something as slow and complex as antitrust laws to resolve this? The Epic vs Google lawsuit started in 2020. 3 years is a long time to wait to collect damages for broken projectors.
It's a business transaction where contracts are the norm. Sony may not be very flexible on terms, but no one is forced to buy their projectors and agree to the terms.
> why would we want to lean on something as slow and complex as antitrust laws
We would if consumers had no other choice but to buy Sony projectors only - that doesn't seem to be the case, though.
I don’t know how much choice movie theaters have. As I understand it, these projectors read directly from a hard drive, and are heavily regulated to avoid piracy. According to the Wikipedia article [1] there are only 4 approved manufacturers, and until very recently Sony had the only 4k model.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_cinema (see the projectors for digits cinema section)
Just because a law is created doesn't mean a new crime with criminal penalties is created.
Courts are our mechanism for sorting out the details, not legislation.