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Pre-Litigation settlement offers are normal and have been going on for years. Its standard procedure in civil lawsuits for the sides to trade letters and offers before going to court.
The truth is that the courts encourage it. Settling things before filling up the court docket is encouraged by the Judges, clerks and entire legal system.
Every single time there is a car crash with injury the lawyer for the injured party contacts the lawyer for the "at fault" party (or their insurance company) with a pre-litigation offer.
This stuff is normal.
It got a tiny bad reputation recently BECAUSE THE PIRATES WANT IT TO HAVE A BAD REPUTATION and make all sorts of claims on pro-piracy blogs about "I never did it but they are theartening me".... (when stats show 95% or more did do it but they don't realize how detailed logs and other things are so they think they can lie their way out of it).
And, of course there was ONE batch of bad lawyers that treated copyright litigation as a profit making adventure and started sending letters discussing suits and settlements for copyrights they or their own clients did not own (which is illegal).
The court would look down on the lawyer that went directly to filing suit without having first sent a Cease & Desist / Pre-Litigation Settlement letter.
And, if no letter was sent in advance, the pirates would also make that an issue and start saying how unfair it is that they got sued without warning, without getting a chance to keep their name out of court, without a chance to handle it in private, etc.
ONLY THE PIRATES WHINE ABOUT THIS STUFF.
Met-Art, X-Art and all the way down to tiny operartion like mine - we would all much rather not have to defend our business from pirates 24/7, we would all much rather not be force to spend countless hours chasing down pirates, and for damn sure we would much rather not have to pay IP companies and lawyers.
ONLY THE PIRATES CAN STOP THESE LAWSUITS.
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