I think that the most worrisome development here is the raise of an asymmetry in contracts:
- Canary can just change their end of the contract at will, not delivering what they promised with the camera
- the user still has to hold their end of the contract, pay the camera and respect the DMCA terms.
And Canary is not an isolated case. Now the fact that part of the ecomic actors can simply disregard their end of the contracts while the others are still bound by it is an essential societal change. You call it « late-stage capitalism », but it is not actually capitalism any more.
