>the whole point of civil disobedience is to break a law, and get caught, punished and make (to a certain extent) a martyr of yourself to draw attention to your cause.

This is assuming that his intent was actually civil disobedience -- what if he didn't think what he was doing was even illegal? His lawyers apparently didn't. And he wasn't even charged with copyright infringement, which is ostensibly the law he would have opposed.