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...ternet— And How to Stop It This page intentionally left blank The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale University Pres... ...s.org. The cover was designed by Ivo van der Ent, based on his winning entry of an open competition at www.worth1000.com. Copyright © 2008 by Jonathan... ...trations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), ... ...ernet worm—was traced to a twenty-three-year-old Cornell University graduate student named Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. He had launched it by infecting a... ...ile Mosaic, the first graphical PC Internet browser, was written by a pair of students in three months. 43 A look at sites that aggregate various softw... ...down to the lowest every one lives as under the eye of a hostile and dreaded censorship. 95 A necessary reaction to the lawlessness of early societies... ...ative basis of the Net and laying the groundwork for the hostile and dreaded censorship that Mill de- cried. In particular, a failure to solve generat... ... suppress the flow of data on the Internet. 24 To be sure, with enough effort, censorship can have some effect, especially because most citizens prefer t... ... or civil investigation. It can also be effected more generally. In 1996, law student Michael Adler offered the hypothetical of an Internet-wide search ...
...xtraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity?and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation?and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control. (futureoftheinternet.org)...
... ISBN: 9989-929-23-8 Created by:LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA Additional articles about Digital Content on the Web: ht... ... This letter constitutes a permission to reprint or mirror any and all of the materials mentioned or linked to herein subject to appropriate cred... ... AUTHOR BIO: Sam Vaknin ( http://samvak.tripod.com ) is the author of Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain - How the... ...rta vs. Britannica XXVIIII. Microsoft Embraces the Web - Encarta and MS Student 2006-2007 XXIX. The Encyclopedia Britannica 2006-2007 XXX. Pr... ...rve as decisive socialization agents and introduce generations of pupils, students, and readers to the possibilities and riches of e-publishing. Gov... ... a plagiarism-free Internet-based academic community of both teachers and students, in which the educational potential of the Internet can be fully ... ...es defy imagination. It carries an equally momentous price tag - official censorship. "Voluntary censorship", to be sure, somewhat toothless standar... ...thless standardization and enforcement authorities, to be sure - still, a censorship with its own institutions to boot. The private sector reacted b... ... surface it is caving in to pressure and temptation, constructing its own censorship codes both in the cable and in the internet media. Institutio...
...Essays dedicated to the new media, doing business on the web, digital content, its creation and distribution, e-publishing, e-books, digital reference, DRM technology, and other related issues....
... http://samvak.tripod.com/freebooks.html Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. A II. B III. C IV. D V... ... XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundamental principle of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to lif... ...le of most moral theories that all human beings have a right to life. The existence of a right implies obligations or duties of third parties toward... ...ning certain thoughts seriously hampers the embryonic development – should we apply censorship to the Mother? Should force majeure clauses be intro... ... being the body politic. This inimical attitude should have come as no surprise to students of either urban realities or of communism, their parric... ...responses to acts of creation (ranging from enthusiasm to awe and from criticism to censorship). True, this range of responses characterizes everyda... ...ls, sperm banks with contributions from high achievers, and incentives for college students to procreate. Modern genetic engineering and biotechnol... ...ychological continuities. I-J Identity (as Habit) In a famous experiment, students were asked to take a lemon home and to get used to it. ... ...onsequences defy imagination. It carries an equally momentous price tag - official censorship. Merely "voluntary censorship", to be sure and coup...
Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.
...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....
.../08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Press New Haven & London ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 372... ...8 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial... ...the author’s website at http://james-boyle.com. Printed in the United States of America. ISBN: 978-0-300-13740-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2... ...ic biology in particular. I was also inspired and informed by colleagues and students in computer science, English, history, and political science. Bu... ...sard told me the dirty secrets of the music industry. Daphne Keller—a former student and later a colleague—helped in more ways than I can count. A num... ...? ___-1 ___0 ___ 1 Each person has a different breaking point. For one of my students it was United States Patent number 6,004,596 for a “Sealed Crust... ...er, and shocking sculpture. You can see a role for highbrow, state-supported media or publicly financed artworks, but your initial working assumption i... ...rot, but of Condorcet’s faith that truths were given in nature and, although mediated through individual minds, belonged ulti- mately to all. Progress... ...up the intellectual current well when he compared the DMCA to the methods of censorship imposed by the seventeenth century Licensing Act. L. Ray Pat- ...
...e ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current copyright, patent, and trademark laws. In a series of fascinat...
...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of power within m... ...L For becoming my smart, beautiful bride in 1949 and then giving fully of herself to me and our wonderful family incomparable love, care, feeding... ...ove, care, feeding, fun, and friendship. Also for her perceptive editing of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book.... ...fficult college textbooks, organizes material in a way which most college students find foreign, but one to which I owe a great deal. I doubt I woul... ...gue. 2 A high school student—recalling my mention of Aquatic Apes the previous week—wanted to h... ...morized. Similar memory skills kept Western epics alive for centuries. Students warehoused memory To perpetuate classics, such as the Iliad and... ...he state their control over what people might know, because printing made censorship too costly to be effective. Nourished literature and was nour... ...e ENIAC predicted a landslide victory for the GOP’s general, but the news media—certain that ENIAC had blundered—censored that accurate call until m... ... also active visual images—first to other individuals but later to social media sites of every sort. Back in the twentieth century, revolutionarie...
...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....
... listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, and the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. -- 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues?-Did a freshwater lake com...