They're paying $3000 per book. It would've been a lot cheaper to buy the books (which is what they actually did end up doing too).

hananova 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

I'm sure the lesson they learned isn't to pay for the books in the future, but to not get caught in the future.

In the business where all the value is in data, all they lost is a bit of money.

bn-l 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

That’s not enough punitive damages for the crime (which is egregious and absolutely deplorable).

	▲	ascorbic 7 days ago \| parent [-]
		I wonder how many of the people saying this about copyright infringement today were complaining about the ridiculously harsh enforcement of it 10-15 years ago. They've just paid $1.5B for torrenting.