I assume this is Germany. Usually you can haggle it down to the low hundreds if it's the first time and you show you're just a regular young person with not much income.

Yea it was. Was 15 years ago though. Never looked back at it, I just won't ever use torrents again so I'll never face this issue again.

When injustice slaps you, you should do more of that, not less, but protecting yourself (vpn, tor, etc.)

Tell that my 15 year old self back in the day. I didn't even know by torreting id also seed, which was the part they got me for.

You mean some asshole asked your parents for that sum to not go to a trial that they would lose and your parents paid.

First off it was like 2 months after my father's death we didnt have time for this, secondly my mom got an attorney that I paid. Was roughly the same amount though. We never paid them.