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53 EMORY L.J. 1887, 1907, 1937–39 (2003) (describing objections to SBDTPA and
DMCA § 1201 on grounds of overbreadth and interference with the fair use doctrine);
Declan McCullagh, New Copyright Bill Heading to DC, WIRED, Sept. 7, 2001, http://
www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,46655,00.html (describing responses to the Security
Systems Standards and Certification Act (SSSCA)); Letter from Shari Steele, Executive
Dir., Elec. Freedom Found., to Senators Fritz Hollings and Ted Stevens (Nov. 5,
2001), available at http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/20011105_eff_sssca_letter .html
(discussing the proposed SSSCA).
47. See Yochai Benkler, Free as the Air to Common Use: First Amendment Constraints on Enclosure
of the Public Domain, 74 N.Y.U. L. REV. 354 (1999) (asserting that expansive intellectual
property rights constrain the availability of information); Yochai Benkler,
Through the Looking Glass: Alice and the Constitutional Foundations of the Public Domain,
66 LAW & CONTEMP. PROBS. 173, 216–18 (2003) (criticizing the NET Act and DMCA
for expanding copyright protection in such a way that will chill expression); Neil Weinstock
Netanel, Locating Copyright Within the First Amendment Skein, 54 STAN. L. REV. 1
(2001) (arguing that the expansion of copyright law limits the incentivizing effect of the
regime and burdens speech); Pamela Samuelson, Intellectual Property and the Digital
Economy: Why the Anti-Circumvention Regulations Need to Be Revised, 14 BERKELEY
TECH. L.J. 519 (1999) (criticizing the DMCA as overly broad and describing some
problems with expansive copyright protections).
48. See, e.g., Dean F. Andal, Read My E-Mail, No New Taxes!, CAL-TAX DIG., Apr. 1997,
available at http://www.caltax.org/MEMBER/digest/apr97/apr97-4.htm; see generally
Charles E. McLure, Jr., Taxation of Electronic Commerce: Economic Objectives, Technological
Constraints, and Tax Laws, 52 TAX L. REV. 269 (1997); William V. Vetter, Preying on
the Web: Tax Collection in the Virtual World, 28 FLA. ST. U. L. REV. 649 (2001) (focusing
on constitutional and jurisdictional issues).
49. According to a 2005 Pew Internet & American Life Project study, 27 percent of adult Internet
users reported engaging in file-sharing. Pew Internet & American Life Project, Internet
Activities (Jan. 11, 2007), http://www.pewinternet.org/trends/Internet_Activities
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50. See William J. Stuntz, The Substantive Origins of Criminal Procedure, 105 YALE L.J. 393,
394–95 (1995). For a related discussion, which also draws on Stuntz, see LESSIG, CODE:
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51. Stuntz, supra note 50, at 395.
52. Cf. LESSIG, CODE: VERSION 2.0, supra note 17, at 309 (supporting exercise of free speech
through democratic channels in societies observing the rule of law, rather than through
“technological tricks”).
53. See Marguerite Reardon, Skype Bows to Chinese Censors, CNET NEWS.COM, Apr. 20,
2006, http://news.com.com/2061-10785_3-6063169.html.
54. See Rebecca MacKinnon, China’s Internet: Let a Thousand Filters Bloom, YALEGLOBAL
ONLINE, June 28, 2005, http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.articleid5928.
55. See Jonathan L. Zittrain & John G. Palfrey, Jr., Reluctant Gatekeepers: Corporate Ethics on