Aren't they already flagrantly violating IP law? How could the record labels make things worse than they already are? I don't get it.

Thing is, when they're pirating books, they're flagrantly violating ip laws in ways which big tech companies do themselves. When they're pirating music, they're flagrantly violating IP laws on a type of IP the big tech companies are directly selling. They're making a lot of new enemies.

Book publishers have less money than record labels, so less lawyers too