> Youtube, for example, built itself to massive size and locked in network effect advantages largely by violating copyright.

> At some point, the legal ambiguity was a problem for their ad business. They were ready to move into the current revenue share influencer-treadmill model for content. At this point online, copyright enforcement was necessary to reduce the risk of being flanked by a new video platform.

That is a gross mischaracerization. There was a time in that Viacom case that people were ligitimitely worried that YouTube would go away. The regime that YouTube has built now was established together with the large media companies, when those media companies could no longer ignore them.