The enforcement of the law and the actual breakage of the law are two separate events. While you're right that it is the copyright holder who has to ask the gov

The enforcement of the law and the actual breakage of the law are two separate events. While you're right that it is the copyright holder who has to ask the government for enforcement. Using a copyrighted work to which you do not own the license is against the law, and the government is capable of violating the law as well.