I don't think that is what is going on at all in the court case. The product in this case is porn, but replace it with any other product. You have a business that makes an oral contract with several providers of the product stating one thing. This oral agreement can be corroborated by prior employees as well as emails. In fact, those show further level of deceit. The compensation is negotiated off of this oral agreement. The actual contract is quite different, and it's very evident the product would produce much more revenue based on this agreement. Furthermore, it gets the product overexposed. Any business would be fucked in this instance and subject to litigation + fines.
I will give you that it does get a little more complicated with the human aspect. The emotional damages and other damages from being outed like that. It does complicate things, but these guys were fucked even without that. The real irony of this case is that they probably thought nothing would ever come of it since these girls didn't want doxed. Well the doxing happened, so they had nothing to lose. The court case probably wouldn't have been brought up if the girls weren't so exposed - and this is something GDP thrived on.