The same what reddit did, "this is our content" we'll try to milk it to the tilt. I think this is akin to a reverse "tragedy of commons" but for user generated

The same what reddit did, "this is our content" we'll try to milk it to the tilt. I think this is akin to a reverse "tragedy of commons" but for user generated content verticals. It makes economic sense for them to try to lock it and they will try to lock it unless there is a market force that prevents that. Sadly, market forces in these markets are few and far between. Cory Doctorow argues that the antidote to walled platforms is to restore the legal and technical right to adversarial interoperability. Users and developers should have the legal freedom to reverse-engineer APIs, build scrapers, create cross-platform bridges, and deploy third-party readers without facing lawsuits under anti-hacking statutes like the CFAA or DMCA Section 1201.