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The Future of the Internet : And How to Stop It

By: Jonathan Zittrain

...e their innovations and deploy them in markets far larger than the amateurs’ domains. Finally, the generative features that invite contribution and th... ...ideo game consoles are not the only appliances vying for a chunk of the PC’s domain. With a handful of exceptions, mobile phones are in the same categ... ...e invested in proprietary in- formation services that failed, while Internet domain names representing firms’ identities were not even reserved by thos... ...and policing) entries that mention or describe them, 87 just as ownership of domain names evolved from an informal and free first-come, first-served sys... ..., and communications—like Hollywood, the recording industry, and perhaps the broadcasters and some of the telecommunications services giants— to a com... ...a radio tuning knob or dial a telephone number to the outside world, ra- dio broadcasts can be jammed, and phone connections can be disabled or mon- i... ...ilt so that they cannot be tuned to frequencies other than those with official broadcasts. 27 With generative devices like PCs, the regulator must settl... ... to arise if music subject to copyright could be shared freely. With TiVo, a broadcaster can flag a program as “premium” and assign it an ex- piration ... ...nte legislative-style drafting. For example, suppose a particular television broadcast were found to infringe a copyright or to damage someone’s reput...

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