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Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace
by Lessig, Lawrence
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 046503912X
- ISBN 13
- 9780465039128
- Seller
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About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Basic Books, 1999. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Lessig, a Stanford Law Professor, was the independent master in the Microsoft antitrust trial, a founder of Creative Commons, and a boardmember of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). This book focuses on Lessig's theories regarding how and if the Internet should be regulated. As he has remained an active figure in the field, it offers interesting insights into his projections and the current situation. Near fine in a like jacket, this is a first printing. Not price clipped or remaindered.
Synopsis
Although the book is named Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, Lessig uses this theme sparingly. It is a fairly simple concept: since cyberspace is entirely human-made, there are no natural laws to determine its architecture. While we tend to assume that what is in cyberspace is a given, in fact everything there is a construction based on decisions made by people. What we can and can't do there is governed by the underlying code of all of the programs that make up the Internet, which both permit and restrict. So while the libertarians among us rail against the idea of government, our freedoms in cyberspace are being determined by an invisible structure that is every bit as restricting as any laws that can come out of a legislature, legitimate or not. Even more important, this invisible code has been written by people we did not elect and who have no formal obligations to us, such as the members of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) or the more recently-developed Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). It follows that what we will be able to do in the future will be determined by code that will be written tomorrow, and we should be thinking about who will determine what this code will be. [from http://kcoyle.net/lessig.html]
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- Books, Interesting and Odd & Sleepyside Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002022
- Title
- Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace
- Author
- Lessig, Lawrence
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 046503912X
- ISBN 13
- 9780465039128
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1999
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾"- 9&fr
- Keywords
- COMPUTERS CIVILIZATION ELECTRONIC COMMERCE FREEDOM
- Bookseller catalogs
- Law;
- X weight
- 0 lbs
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