I recall they had to upload The Simpsons in its original format after about a month, they tinkered with it and it meant that in plenty of episodes the gag wasn’t on screen as it was chopped out of oblivion by them messing with the ratios
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Yes; they put the whole lot up in 16:9, and the cropping meant that sight gags involving the top and bottom of the screen were butchered - the example which did the rounds showing how bad this was was the Duff brewery and the tanks of different types of beer, with the 16:9 cropped version losing the fact they were all filled from the same pipe.
The only affected seasons 1-19, though, as from season 20 onwards the Simpsons was 16:9 native.
Having seen the screenshots of the windowboxing above, however, I dread to think how they’ve fixed the Simpsons!
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Distributing illegal streams is a breach of copyright law, as opposed to an infringement of rights. It’s a crime basically, not a civil dispute so there’s no need for anyone to demonstrate loss.
Not that whether it actually aired or not is relevant to a demonstration of loss anyway.
The rightsholder can normally bring a civil claim too for damages, whether or not there’s a criminal prosecution. Certainly against big infringers