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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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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…

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cpHack

cpHack [pdf] Amicus Brief in Microsystems Software v. Scandinavia Online…

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US v. Microsoft

U.S. v. Microsoft [pdf] Amicus Brief in United States v. Microsoft Reply [pdf] Reply to Professors Slawson and Chemerinsky re United States v. Microsoft…