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on t h e E l e c t r o n i c F r o n t i e r onceptual Issues in Cyberspace f o r e w o r d b y M i k e G o d w i n High Noon on the Electronic Frontier » « ' Digital Communication Edward Barrett, editor High Noon on the Electronic Frontier: Conceptual Issues in Cyberspace Peter Ludlow, 1996 Technical Communication, Multimedia, and Information Systems Edward Barrett, editor The Nürnberg Funnel: Designing Minimalist Instruction for Practical Computer Skill, John M. Carroll, 1990 Hypermedia and Literary Studies, edited by Paul Delany and George P Landow, 1991 Rhetoric, Innovation, Technology: Case Studies o f Technical Com m u nication in Technology Transfers, Stephen Doheny-Farina, 1 9 9 2 Sociomedia: Multimedia, Hypermedia, and the Social Construction o f Knowledge, edited by Edward Barrett, 1992 The Digital Word: Text-Based Computing in the Humanities, edited by George P. Landow and Paul Delany, 1993 Contextual Media: Multimedia and Interpretation, edited by Edward Barrett and Marie Redmond, 1995 High Noon on the Electronic Frontier Conceptual Issues in Cyberspace Peter Ludlow The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England Second printing, 1996 % ©1996 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in w^riting from the publisher. This book was set in Sabon by Northeastern Graphic Services, Inc. Printed and bound in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ludlow^, Peter, 1957- High noon on the electronic frontier : conceptual issues in cyberspace / Peter Ludlow^. p. cm. — (Digital communication) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-262-12196-4 (alk. paper). — ISBN 0-262-62103-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Computers—social aspects. 2. Information superhighw^ay— Social aspects. 3. Computer networks;—Security measures. 4. Sex— Computer network resources. I. Series. QA76.9.C66L84 1996 302.23— dc20 96-3987 CIP for Irepetti Contents Series Foreword xi Foreword xiii Mike Godwin Preface xvii Acknowledgments xxi I Piracy, Property Rights, etc.: Does Information “Want to Be Free?” 1 1 Selling Wine without Bottles: The Economy of Mind on the Global Net 9 John Perry Barlow 2 Why Patents Are Bad for Software 35 Simson L. Garfinkel, Richard M. Stallman, and Mitchell Kapor 3 Against Software Patents 4 7 The League for Programming Freedom 4 Debunking the Software Patent Myths 63 Paul Heckel 5 So You Want to Be a Pirate? 109 Pirate Editorial 6 Some “Property” Problems in a Computer Crime Prosecution 113 Mike Godwin II How Should We Respond to Exploratory Hacking/Cracking/ Phreaking? 123 7 The Conscience of a Hacker 131 The Mentor via Contents 8 The Prisoner: Phiber Optik Goes Directly to Jail 133 Julian Dibbell 9 Concerning Hackers Who Break into Comi^uter Systems; Postscript, June 11, 1995 137 Dorothy E. Denning 0 Congressional Testimony by Emmanuel Goldstein 165 II Encryption, Privacy, and Crypto-Anarchism 173 1 How PGP Works/Why Do You Need PGP? 179 Philip R. Zimmermann 2 Crypto Rebels 185 Steven Levy 3 Jackboots on the Infobahn 2 0 7 John Perry Barlow 4 The Clipper Chip Will Block Crime 21 5 Dorothy E. Denning 5 The Denning-Barlow Clipper Chip Debate 2 1 7 Dorothy E. Denning and John Perry Barlow 6 Achieving Electronic Privacy 225 David Chaum 7 A Crypto Anarchist Manifesto 2 3 7 Timothy C. May 8 Introduction to BlackNet 241 Timothy C. May 9 BlackNet Worries 245 Timothy C. May % V Censorship and Sysop Liability 251 20 Censoring Cyberspace 2 5 9 Philip Elmer-Dewitt 21 ACLU Letter to CM U on alt.sex Newsgroups 2 63 22 Virtual Community Standards: BBS Oscenity Case Raises New Legal Issues 2 6 9 Mike Godwin Contents ix 23 Public Networks and Censorship 275 Jeffrey Shallit 24 Sex and the Single Sysadmin; The Risks of Carrying Graphic Sexual Materials 291 Mike Godwin 25 Com puter and Academ ic Freedom News’s List of Banned Files on College Campuses 301 Compiled by Carl Kadie V Self and Community Online 311 26 Gender Swapping on the Internet 3 17 Amy S. Bruckman 2 7 Text-based Virtual Realities: Identity and the Cyborg Body 32 7 Elizabeth M. Reid 28 MUDding: Social Phenomena in Text-based Virtual Realities 34 7 Pavel Curtis 2 9 A Rape in Cyberspace; or How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster Spirit, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned a Database into a Society 375 Julian Dibbell 30 Communication and Community on Internet Relay Chat: Constructing Communities 3 9 7 Elizabeth M. Reid 31 A Slice of My Life in My Virtual Community 413 Howard Rheingold 32 pandora’s vox: on community in cyberspace 4 3 7 humdog 33 Losing Your Voice on the Internet 445 James DiGiovanna Appendix 1: Crime and Puzzlement 4 5 9 John Perry Barlow Appendix 2: Hardware 1: The Italian Hacker Crackdown 4 8 7 Peter Ludlow
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