InternetHistory and Future: Wharton: 18 November 2017

1. Internet
History and Future
Chris Marsden
Wharton
18 November 2017

2. My prior art....1997-2017

3. Internet law that matters dates to 1990s?
European Union
• Directive EC/46/95
– Data protection updated 2018
• Directive 2000/31/EC
– E-commerce liability
• Regulation EC/2887/2000
– Local loop unbundling
• Directive 2001 /29/EC
– Copyright enforcement
• Directive 2002/58/EC
– Cookies law revised 2009/2019
United States
Telecom Deregulation Act 1996
– Inc. CDA s.230
– ACLU v. Reno
• Children's Online Privacy Protection
Act of 1998
• DMCA 1998
– A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc., 114
F.Supp.2d 896 (2000) et seq.
• CAN-SPAM Act of 2003
– 1997 DDOS DEFCON attack
– ILoveYou/Kournikova viruses 2000-1

4. Nothing in regulation is new

5. Physical Internet uses train/telegraph
routes – new idea is middleboxes/mobile

6. Mobile (iPhone 2007) contributed to mass
surveillance Internet consumers ‘enjoy’
DoCoMo i-mode 1999 PHS/CT2 1992 WiFi 1999 (802.11b)

7. Example: Net neutrality 1999
Network Neutrality debate began in 1999
– Though christened by @superwuster 2002/3
– Eli Noam mourned common carriage’s death 1994
– It was footnoted by Council of Europe in 1999
Lessig and Lemley FCC submission:
– ‘The end of End-to-End’
• Before ‘Code and Other Laws…’ (1999)
• While TBL was ‘weaving the web’ (1999)

8. SOME EARLIER HISTORY:
WHY WE HAVE REGULATION