I dont find this convincing, taxis are mad because it's competition, the restaurants are mad because its impersonation. The restaurants should be entitled to civil suits to reclaim damages while in the Uber/AirBnB situation its more about regulations that the government failed to enforce.

I agree, however liability should go much further than just civil damages, and should enter the territory of criminal fraud and trademark infringement.

If I impersonated Disney online and used their trademarks on my website, the FBI would raid my home, I'd be in prison and courts would bar me from ever touching a computer again.

Restaurants should be able to call the cops and report fraud, have it investigated and stopped, and have their cases passed on to federal authorities if necessary. This doesn't happen.

Not to mention Spotify or the early days of YouTube. Money is power, with enough of it you can bend the law.

Spotify didn't have any fuckoff money in the start and the streamed stuff they got from the Piratebay. The authorities in Sweden didn't notice since they Spotify also tried at the same time to get proper contracts I guess and the music industry seemed to look through their fingers.

Youtube is more strange since they illegally hosted IP for a long while.

> Youtube is more strange since they illegally hosted IP for a long while.

They still do, their ContentID system has a lot of holes.