Again, it's obviously the other side of the coin: users being able to adapt or do whatever copyright permits them to do without the threat or the fear that they will be subject to statutory damages without the plaintiff having to prove them. Anything that short-circuits the regular system is potentially chilling on those people who want to adapt, create, build on knowledge, and use what's out there in a way that is legitimate within the confines of what's reasonable and fair but without these hammers hanging over their heads, which would be huge damages.
Again, this is not to suggest that people who are downloading music or whatever for commercial purposes—there was a big case in the United States involving this—should not be subject to whatever the remedies are. The hammers that are incorporated, and the statutory damages as a hammer, would have a chilling effect on those who might do things that are legitimate but would be inhibited from doing them.