“On information and belief, the enterprise generated in excess of €7,000,000 since 2009 across more than 15,000 documented VIP payment events”
RICO was written for organized crime, not for people who paid a subscription to a torrent tracker. Calling uploaders “lower-rung participants” and subscribers “funders” is a deliberate framing to stack treble damages on top of $150,000 per work. Seventy-four of the defendants are John Does known only by username, so the real product here is a subpoena machine for names. On a gay torrent site, the threat of being identified does the settlement work that the legal theory cannot.