It’s troubling too to think how this will encroach on more and more transactions, as so many things become are becoming so-called ‘smart’.  As Paul says in his Info Civics article, “All authority is borrowed from the server, and so the users possess no authority of their own. As a result we must describe these services as authoritarian.”  It’s provocative but I think the same could be applied here.

We have an interview with one of the authors, Aaron Perzanowski, here – https://therestartproject.org/podcast/crisis-copyright/.