Contracts are not a "reinvented" form of copyright. This isn't even uncommon.

That's the irony! They put in contract rules against lawful, paying customers - that don't disrupt their service in any way for other customers - but which compete against them in the marketplace using their own IP (aka LLMized stolen IP). That's exactly what copyright does, without signing any contracts and with a tort and criminal enforcement regime that punishes infringers far beyond contractual remedies can.

The government level lobby against foreign competitors is not contractual but just another form of reinvention of criminal injunctions against infringers.

It’s the classic confidently wrong HN opinion about a field outside the commenter’s expertise.