Best way to "punish" Meta is to slash the Gordian knot and abolish copyright. Level the playing field, incrementally, for everyone else who isn't a trillion-dollar corporation.
The alternative is a futile legalistic attack against a monopoly entity too powerful to be meaningfully punished. That won't accomplish anything useful. It would, rather, help cement this status quo, where copyright infringement is selectively legal or illegal, for different entities at the same time; and companies like Meta thrive arbitraging that difference. You can't defeat Meta—but you can help dig them a moat.
Ridding copyright would level the playing field for individuals and companies????!!!! Getting rid of laws that protect the individual only will help the larger empowered businesses.
I'm pretty sure I could list ten megacorps that would collapse overnight if copyright was abolished. The music groups, movie studios, streaming platforms...
What's the alternative to copyright then? Anything I create will be instantly reproduced and sold for less than I can afford to by some entity far larger and more efficient than me.
> Level the playing field, incrementally, for everyone else who isn't a trillion-dollar corporation.
There is no level playing field when you have individuals and trillion-dollar companies in the same market.
Right, all this talk about getting rid of copyright and no one is talking about what should replace it? how would we we incentives people to write good books? to pour 1000s of hours of their time to produce new knowledge?
Does this mean we are willing to live in a world with less variety of books and authors? meaning only to let those who really want to advance knowledge, and willing to do so with no monetary reward? feels like this would lead to to a slow down in knowledge production. It's not like there was a healthy and vigorous book publishing industry pre creation of copyright. We're ok with going back to that era?
The alternative is a futile legalistic attack against a monopoly entity too powerful to be meaningfully punished. That won't accomplish anything useful. It would, rather, help cement this status quo, where copyright infringement is selectively legal or illegal, for different entities at the same time; and companies like Meta thrive arbitraging that difference. You can't defeat Meta—but you can help dig them a moat.