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Coding Privacy
Coding Privacy After years of inaction, Congress is finally coming to see that privacy on the Internet won"t take care of itself. The mystery isn"t th…
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The Problem with Patents
The Problem with Patents A patent is a form of regulation. It is a government-granted monopoly - an exclusive right backed by the power of the state. This monop…
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The Code is the Law
The Code is the Law The single most significant change in the politics of cyberspace is the coming of age of this simple idea: The code is law. The architecture…
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Memo to the Leviathan
Memo to the Leviathan Sorry I missed your call. You sounded awful. You can"t let this cyberspace stuff get you down. Industry Standard, March 5, 1999…
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Pain in the OS
Pain in the OS A growing number of Linux users have tried to return their copy of Windows and receive the promised refund. Industry Standard, February 5, 1999…
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The Spam Wars
The Spam Wars The looming conflict is a spam war. A spam war is not the battle to clear our inboxes of uninvited junk. A spam war is the battle that will be fou…
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Sign It and Weep
Sign It and Weep Earlier this month, the drafting committee for an obscure but enormously important proposed law known as Article 2B of the Uniform Commercial C…
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Digital Dog Tags
Digital Dog Tags If the government wants to regulate your behavior - make you pay taxes, say, or deny you the right to buy cigarettes - it needs to know who you…
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A Bad Turn for Net Governance
A Bad Turn for Net Governance We"re coming to the end of our first experiment with "stakeholder government" in cyberspace - and the results are n…
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The Microsoft Settlment: A Look to the Future
The Microsoft Settlment: A Look to the Future [ pdf | html ] Answers to Senate Questions [ pdf | ms word ]…
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DVD
DVD [pdf] Brief of Professors Yochai Benkler and Lawrence Lessig as Amici Curiae…
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Napster
Napster [pdf] Expert Report in A&M Records v. Napster…