In short.....
They simply went the one step further than the big conglomerates. And got burned.
( US American) Legal issues aside, tonight it took me about 5 minutes on a lappie using Google to prove rule #34 to a rather rapt ( not legal everywhere ) audience in the pub. Yes, I believe in true education by example. My biggest question is: why the hell did the people burned by this bothered to torrent that stuff anyways. There's your Five Minutes of Fap everywhere, for "free".