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Notes <strong>to</strong> Pages 124–28 287<br />

available at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/20/technology/20myspace.htmlex<br />

1332043200&en8e52c7903cb71959&ei5088&partnerrssnyt&emcrss.<br />

112. See Michael Liedtke, Google <strong>to</strong> S<strong>to</strong>p Web Video Rentals, Sales, YAHOO! NEWS, Aug. 10,<br />

2007, http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070811/ap_on_hi_te/google_video_4 (last<br />

vis<strong>it</strong>ed Aug. 13, 2007); Posting <strong>of</strong> Cory Doc<strong>to</strong>row <strong>to</strong> BoingBoing, Google Video Robs<br />

Cus<strong>to</strong>mers <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Videos They “Own,” http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/10/ google_<br />

video_robs_cu.html (Aug. 10, 2007, 21:34).<br />

113. One example <strong>of</strong> this would be B<strong>it</strong>Torrent, “a peer-assisted, dig<strong>it</strong>al content delivery platform”<br />

that distributes <strong>the</strong> cost <strong>of</strong> sharing files by breaking <strong>the</strong>m down in<strong>to</strong> smaller<br />

pieces that are each supplied by separate peers in <strong>the</strong> network. B<strong>it</strong>Torrent, Company<br />

Overview, http://www.b<strong>it</strong><strong>to</strong>rrent.com/about/companyoverview (last vis<strong>it</strong>ed Dec. 1,<br />

2007).<br />

114. A variety <strong>of</strong> programs already allow users <strong>to</strong> contribute idle CPU time <strong>to</strong> far-flung projects.<br />

See, e.g., Climateprediction.net, http://climateprediction.net/ (last vis<strong>it</strong>ed June<br />

1, 2007); Rosetta@home, What is Rosetta@home, http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta<br />

/rah_about.php (last vis<strong>it</strong>ed June 1, 2007); SETI@home, The Science <strong>of</strong> SETI@home,<br />

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_about.php (last vis<strong>it</strong>ed June 1, 2007); World<br />

Commun<strong>it</strong>y Grid, About Us, http://www.worldcommun<strong>it</strong>ygrid.org/about_us/view<br />

AboutUs.do (last vis<strong>it</strong>ed June 1, 2007).<br />

115. Chris<strong>to</strong>pher Law<strong>to</strong>n, ‘Dumb Terminals’ Can Be a Smart Move, WALL ST. J., Jan. 30,<br />

2007, at B3, available at http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB11701197127429<br />

1861-oJ6FWrnA8NMPfMXw3vBILth1EiE_20080129.htmlmodblogs.<br />

116. See generally ACCESS DENIED: THE PRACTICE AND POLICY OF GLOBAL INTERNET FIL-<br />

TERING (Ronald J. Deibert et al. eds., 2008).<br />

117. Recursively generative applications are capable <strong>of</strong> producing not only new works, but<br />

also new generative applications that can <strong>the</strong>n be used <strong>to</strong> create new works.<br />

118. See Jonathan Z<strong>it</strong>train, Normative Principles for Evaluating Free and Proprietary S<strong>of</strong>tware,<br />

71 U. CHI. L. REV. 265, 272–73 (2004) (describing an open development model<br />

for s<strong>of</strong>tware).<br />

CHAPTER 6. THE LESSONS OF WIKIPEDIA<br />

1. See Matthias Schulz, Controlled Chaos: European C<strong>it</strong>ies Do Away w<strong>it</strong>h Traffic Signs,<br />

SPIEGEL ONLINE INT’L, Nov. 16, 2006, http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/<br />

0,1518,448747,00.html.<br />

2. In <strong>the</strong> Un<strong>it</strong>ed States, studies by <strong>the</strong> Federal Highway Traffic Safety Administration<br />

(FTSA) have s<strong>how</strong>n that mo<strong>to</strong>rists disobey speed lim<strong>it</strong>s on non-interstates 70 percent<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> time. Interview w<strong>it</strong>h Earl Hardy, Speeding Expert, Nat’l Highway Traffic Safety<br />

Admin., and Elizabeth Alicandri, Dir. <strong>of</strong> Office <strong>of</strong> Safety Programs, Fed. Highway Admin.,<br />

WASHINGTONPOST.COM (Mar. 30, 2006), http://www.washing<strong>to</strong>npost.com/<br />

wp-dyn/content/discussion/2006/03/23/DI2006032301185.html.<br />

3. Schulz, supra note 1.<br />

4. For a discussion <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> differences between rules and standards, see, for example, Alan

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