[Faceman]

What I don't get is why US courts so easily agree with the fantastic numbers the victims calculate once they are big companies.
If some drunk guy for instance vandalizes my car I'd never think of sueing him

for 1.2mio.$ = the amount I would have won in high-speed chases with exactly this car (a 1989 Volkswagen Polo)

because I know (and the court knows) that there is NO way I'd have won even a single buck with this car.
But record companies can easily sue Napster for billions of dollars assuming that everybody who downloaded a song for free in a time of approx. 45 seconds would have taken 1 hour of his day to walk to the store and buy the whole album.
Same with this satellite companies. If he hadn't offered free/cheap service to all these people they would without a single exception all have bought the full price service.