[Pearls Before Swine]

....what really happened was they agreed to make specialty videos (for a single customer, usually) and that the films would stay offline; the pornographers immediately posted the vids online to Pornhub and their own site. Oops.

So, this is essentially a copyright dispute. They distributed the videos beyond their agreed, or imputed, copyright license.

Sure, the girls would argue that they never would have done the videos if they knew they would be widely distributed, but isn't that argument just haggling about price?

[Retrofitted]

Not really, not in this day and age where doxing is a thing, which apparently where the damages come in.