Cyberspace as place
A long paper byDan Hunter about the metaphor of cyberspace as place and its consequences in terms of property and law. Here’s how the abstract begin :
“Cyberspace was once thought to be the modern equivalent of the Western Frontier, a place, where land was free for the taking, where explorers could roam, and communities could form with their own rules. It was an endless expanse of space: open, free, replete with possibility. This is true no longer. This Article argues that we are enclosing cyberspace, and imposing private property conceptions upon it. As a result, we are creating a digital anti-commons where sub-optimal uses of Internet resources is going to be the norm.”
Seems pretty interesting. Downloadable as pdf there