It's actually worse than described. One of the details of this never really made it into the lawsuit, but in my computer support business I encountered customer

It's actually worse than described. One of the details of this never really made it into the lawsuit, but in my computer support business I encountered customers who were victims of this scam at the time. They didn't just upload gay porn in torrents, they intentionally infected those downloads with ransomware that would hold your whole computer hostage with legal threats demanding that you call the lawfirm and pay anywhere between $150,000 and $400,000. With the threatened alternative of releasing your name in public. I personally witnessed this about three times. They were absolute bastards.