its just impossible to not read this as. "they used her lawsuit to set an example, so it worked". One can be true and the other can be untrue... Piracy never ended, and it was not a reversion to the old ways post lawsuit, the market evolved based on the pushback from the public. I have no idea how you are drawing your conclusion that because this lawsuit exists, it was the final nail in the piracy coffin, when piracy has literally never gone away.
Anecdotally, I very much lived through this entire era, I've literally never seen that lawsuit until you linked that article(notable the 25k settlement she declined). The idea that it scared the entire USA into compliance is an unbelievable stretch... still.
its just impossible to not read this as. "they used her lawsuit to set an example, so it worked". One can be true and the other can be untrue... Piracy never ended, and it was not a reversion to the old ways post lawsuit, the market evolved based on the pushback from the public. I have no idea how you are drawing your conclusion that because this lawsuit exists, it was the final nail in the piracy coffin, when piracy has literally never gone away.
Anecdotally, I very much lived through this entire era, I've literally never seen that lawsuit until you linked that article(notable the 25k settlement she declined). The idea that it scared the entire USA into compliance is an unbelievable stretch... still.
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