Having read the paper about widespread use of questionable data practices, for some reason I'm wondering whether I should trust the authors' data . . .
The studios would love to stop Netflix DVD rentals too, because they don't share in the revenue from those rentals. But the law doesn't permit them to. The "decoy" answer may be the right answer for the simple reason that copyright law distinguishes between the renting of a physical thing and the renting of the information on that physical thing. That distinction doesn't make any logical sense -- it's based in history -- but it is the law.
on Tesla, this is wrong. The NHTSA did NOT say Tesla's statements were inaccurate. It said "we only give ratings up to 5, and that's what we want you to tell the public." Tesla's sin was disclosing the raw data, not the data the NHTSA wanted them to.