If I personally "watch video content" without paying for it, that doesn't amount to much. If everyone does, that amounts to a hell of a lot more. That's how civil disobedience works.

The point behind civil disobedience is that you knowingly break the law because you both believe the law is absurd AND you’re prepared to accept the legal consequences in the hope that society will look on your example as the punishment not being appropriate and change the law.

Being prepared for the consequences is just good advice for anything you do in life. But it's not an intrinsic part of civil disobedience, nor is being punished for said disobedience.

No, the point behind civil disobedience is that you knowingly break the law in order to make the law harder to enforce, whether that's for PR reasons or - per the topic - because so many people are doing it that it's logistically impractical to make a dent in them.