> I've seen many photographers who ended up with the exact same behaviour
Total different scale. One photographer vs thousands of infringers is different from team of lawyers vs one casual infringer which is also a good customer.
> A 3~5x infringement surcharge isn't outrageous.
We'll have to disagree there. The copyright industry is the only industry on earth using multiplicators as liberally as this, for "damages" that are very hard to prove in the first place.
> CERN suffered no damages, they forwarded the invoice to the student.
Yeah, and that's a dick move as well. The student clearly did wrong, but CERN might have had a responsibility by not monitoring what this student was doing (why did he have to install the software himself? Where was the sysadmin? Why is he allowed to use his own laptop? etc etc). They acted like Pilate, and that's not good in my book.
Total different scale. One photographer vs thousands of infringers is different from team of lawyers vs one casual infringer which is also a good customer.
> A 3~5x infringement surcharge isn't outrageous.
We'll have to disagree there. The copyright industry is the only industry on earth using multiplicators as liberally as this, for "damages" that are very hard to prove in the first place.
> CERN suffered no damages, they forwarded the invoice to the student.
Yeah, and that's a dick move as well. The student clearly did wrong, but CERN might have had a responsibility by not monitoring what this student was doing (why did he have to install the software himself? Where was the sysadmin? Why is he allowed to use his own laptop? etc etc). They acted like Pilate, and that's not good in my book.