Maybe in jurisdictions like the US, where the copyright lobby has been very effective in getting aggressive anti-piracy legislation with huge penalties enacted, the statutory damages alone could be astronomical? Since Facebook could still afford to pay them, it might also offer to settle for a very worthwhile sum without even the risk of going to court.
I'm generally not a fan of hugely disproportionate penalties for copyright infringement, but this isn't some normal person falling victim to opportunist lawyers engaging in a form of barratry, this is a huge company with its own legal team who should know better than to wilfully infringe copyright.
Maybe in jurisdictions like the US, where the copyright lobby has been very effective in getting aggressive anti-piracy legislation with huge penalties enacted, the statutory damages alone could be astronomical? Since Facebook could still afford to pay them, it might also offer to settle for a very worthwhile sum without even the risk of going to court.
I'm generally not a fan of hugely disproportionate penalties for copyright infringement, but this isn't some normal person falling victim to opportunist lawyers engaging in a form of barratry, this is a huge company with its own legal team who should know better than to wilfully infringe copyright.