Must read THREAD. About this crazy time, when I startet my law phd on filesharing platforms and (direct & indirect) liabilty; paranoid from the beginning that technology might outpace the law and me.https://twitter.com/backus/status/1015820990696194049 …
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Replying to @guidobrinkel
I’ve got an essay on that exact topic coming out soon. Very interesting subject
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Replying to @backus
Well, indeed.
Got me two years of legal deep dive. And underlying questions are basically still the same today. Such as: can a decentraliced platform be subject to regulation at all? (answer: possibly not, but there will always be "liabilty proxies").1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @guidobrinkel
Yeah that is basically where I stand now. They can be banned (sort of) by hostile governments, but the whole point is to extract and diffuse the central components that would be regulated otherwise
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Replying to @backus
Blockchain and crypto currency are an interesting test in that context. A pure blockchain itself can hardly be regulated, but wallet services (critical for mass adoption) can. That's what I basically mean with "liabilty proxies".
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Seems like the regulatory aspect always shifts again though when parts of the ecosystem are OSS non-profit. If you mean wallets as in Coinbase and friends then yeah we’re on the same page.
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