Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace by Lawrence Lessig, Basic Books,
£19.50/$30, ISBN 046503912X
NO ONE controls the Internet—that’s been the claim from the start. The
argument is simple: the Net is too diverse and its users too numerous for any
government or commercial body to dominate. Anonymous servers can re-route
censored e-mail. Laws count for nothing: websites illegal in one country can
find a host or mirror site in many others. Secrets will be disseminated far and
wide.
Certainly, for a while this seemed true, but can this freedom continue?
Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig argues in Code and…
