Why the misnomer in the headline? Let’s call this what it is: fraud. These companies committed fraud. All involved should be prosecuted accordingly and the regulation rolled back and re-reviewed.
But nothing is going to happen. Nobody wants to go through it again and nobody wants to go to jail. People will complain for a bit and next week or month almost everyone will forget about it.
Furthermore, there are legislation coming e.g. from the EU (terreg) that makes hosting of projects with user generated content prohibitively expensive for small players, not to mention hobbyists.
The internet as we know has ended.
