They settled before going to suit, I didn't say I obtained verdicts, I said I obtained settlements. Verdicts aren't how most copyright infringement works (more evidence that you have no idea what you are talking about, at all).

You do not have to file suit to assert a copyright. You just need the authority to file that suit, in order to have a meaningful threat from which an infringer (especially a large media company) will settle.

If this is too hard for you to believe, I'm not sure what to tell you but to spend more time in the real world, and less on whatever media you are reading to engender these thoughts.