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6. Wikipedia’s content is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, which allows
licensees to copy, modify, and distribute the content as long as they release the modified
version under the same license. See Wikipedia, Wikipedia:Copyrights, http://en
.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyrights (as of May 15, 2007, 05:15 GMT); GNU
Free Documentation License, http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html (last visited May
15, 2007).
7. In June 2006, the popular site couchsurfing.com experienced a massive data failure,
from which the founder believed the site could not recover. He issued a statement to his
community saying goodbye. See Posting of Michael Arrington to TechCrunch, Couch-
Surfing Deletes Itself, Shuts Down, http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/06/29/couch
surfing-deletes-itself-shuts-down (June 29, 2006). Several days later, after much cajoling
from Arrington’s community, the CouchSurfing site was back up, although some data
had been permanently lost. In December 2006 some Gmail users logged on to find their
inboxes empty and all their contacts deleted. That data was not recoverable. See Hari K.
Gottipati, GMail Disaster, Google Confirmed the Mass Email Deletions. Even Backups Are
Gone, O’REILLY XM, Dec. 28, 2006, http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2006/12/
gmail_disaster_google_confirme.html. Outages at the domain registration site Register-
Fly caused that site to be taken down indefinitely. See Posting of Rich Miller to Netcraft,
RegisterFly Site Goes Offline, http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2007/03/06/registerfly
_site_goes_offline.html (Mar. 6, 2007, 20:07 GMT) (reporting RegisterFly’s outages
and subsequent shutdown, and ICANN’s fears about the status of the domain names
registered with RegisterFly).
8. For an overview of different perspectives on the debate, see, for example, “Network Neutrality”:
Hearing Before the S. Comm. on Commerce, Sci. & Transp., 109th Cong. (2006)
(statement of Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law, Stanford Law School), available at
http://commerce.senate.gov/pdf/lessig-020706.pdf; Tim Wu, Network Neutrality
FAQ, http://timwu.org/network_neutrality.html (last visited May 15, 2007); Christopher
S. Yoo, Would Mandating Broadband Network Neutrality Help or Hurt Competition
A Comment on the End-to-End Debate, 3 J. TELECOMM. & HIGH TECH. L. 71 (2004);
David Farber & Michael Katz, Hold Off on Net Neutrality, WASH. POST, Jan. 19, 2007,
at A19. For a more detailed discussion of the network neutrality debate, compare Tim
Wu, Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination, 2 J. TELECOMM. & HIGH TECH. L.
141 (2003), and Mark A. Lemley & Lawrence Lessig, The End of End-to-End: Preserving
the Architecture of the Internet in the Broadband Era, 48 UCLA L. REV. 925 (2001), with
Christopher S. Yoo, Beyond Network Neutrality, 19 HARV. J.L. & TECH. 1 (2005). See also
Legal Affairs Debate Club—Keeping the Internet Neutral Christopher S. Yoo and Tim
Wu Debate, LEGAL AFFAIRS, May 1, 2006, http://www.legalaffairs.org/webexclusive/
dc_printerfriendly.mspid86. For articles noting the centrality of end-to-end, see for
example, Marjory S. Blumenthal, End-to-End and Subsequent Paradigms, 2002 L. REV.
M.S.U.-D.C. L. 709 (describing end-to-end as the current paradigm for understanding
the Internet); and Lawrence Lessig, The Architecture of Innovation, 51 DUKE L.J. 1783
(2002) (arguing that end-to-end establishes the Internet as a commons). For the perspective
of a number of economists, see William J. Baumol et al., Economists’ Statement
on Network Neutrality Policy (AEI-Brookings Joint Ctr., Working Paper No. RP07–08,