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Who controls the Internet? : illusions of a borderless world / Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goldsmith, Jack L.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Internet--Social aspects.
- Internet.
- Internet--Government policy.
- Internet--Law and legislation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (239 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Examining issues from e-commerce to privacy and pornography, intellectual property rights, and cybercrime, 'Who Controls the Internet' demonstrates that individual governments, rather than private or global bodies will play the dominant role in regulation.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Yahoo!
- Visions of a post-territorial order
- The god of the Internet
- Why geography matters
- How governments rule the Net
- China
- The filesharing movement
- Virtues and vices of government control
- Consequences of borders
- Global laws
- Conclusion: Globalization meets governmental coercion.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2006.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-217) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780199839667
- 0199839662
- 9780197561904
- 019756190X
- 9781280532474
- 1280532475
- 9780198034803
- 0198034806
- 9781429404044
- 1429404043
- OCLC:
- 476025584
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