You may also be interested in “The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy”
https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/4662/The-End-of-OwnershipPersonal-Property-in-the
Somewhat annoying that each chapter is a separate download, but it’s all free.
Would it even require massive changes? The framework is already built for music. The idea behind compulsory licensing is that any radio station can play any music, and the royalty rates due to the copyright holder are set in advance. The music industry fought tooth and nail to prevent streaming sites from getting access to their content, but it’s now their biggest revenue source.
A world where Netflix, Disney, Paramount, Max, and all the others could use each others’ (and literally all) content and pay for every stream would practically kill video piracy almost overnight. Make them all compete on their quality of service, instead of the size of their siloed library. And in the end, both customers and rights-holders would almost certainly be better off.
This is it. Companies make bad decisions all the time, but they can sometimes be shown why their decision is a bad one, and reverse course. All the interviews with Spez the last two weeks show that he may actually be a sociopath. He doesn’t see the people who provide all the value to Reddit as actual people, and won’t listen to their concerns at all.
Samsung did have a major problem early last year, but it seems to be limited to a run of products with a specific firmware.