I don't have strong feelings either way about whether Harvey Weinstein goes to prison, but I will note the strangeness of a rape prosecution that spent so much time in testimony on how revoltingly ugly the alleged rapist was.
The casting couch is part of a bundle of compensation. No casting couch - casting directors money compensation goes up; actresses' pay goes down. The financiers were paying the men in charge of casting partly in access to actresses and the actresses were getting extra money.