The document discusses several topics related to laws, regulations, and controls in cyberspace including: 1) The balance between law enforcement, commercial interests, and individual liberty posed by new digital technologies requires new laws and interpretations of existing laws. 2) Market competition will influence how intellectual property rights, free speech, and privacy are protected online. 3) Different online environments can yield widely different experiences in terms of how constitutional values like free speech are treated. 4) Issues like free speech, intellectual property, privacy will continue to be important areas of discussion, especially for industries like entertainment and publishing.

1. The case that important gains in liberty promoted by the internet, such as freedom of
speech. We have many choice to make regarding that very nature; planners of cyber
space. Code is call to arms to make the net a place of liberty rather than control.
“East coast code” namely the code of law, interacts with “west coast code,” namely the
software’s that shapes what can and can’t be done on the internet.
The internet has lost its innocence. The increasing of commercialization of cyberspace
put limits on freedoms. We should all care a great deal about how controllable
cyberspace will be.
The Architecture of Control:
The digital revolution has spawned a series of potential laws and regulations that pose
novel trade-offs between law enforcement, commercial progress, and individual liberty.
This is not surprising: from the telegraph to the telephone, from radio to satellite
television, new technologies have always required new laws and further interpretation of
the constitution. Because cyberspace is likely to become a pervasive part of everyday life,
similar legal decisions may have a profound impact. Market competition will have a lot
to do with how well our rights to intellectual property, free speech, and privacy are
protected.
Only the managers of AOL can broadcast messages to all members. The Y2K problem
should awaken us to other time-bombs in our lives. The character of cyberspace is still up
for grabs and different user environment yield widely different experiences. Along these
lines, lessig looks at how some current on-line environments treats constitutional values.
AOL appears to facilitate free speech by permitting multiple pseudonyms, which makes
mystery.
How Markets Can Promote Fair Use:
A popular belief holds that the digitization of information poses a grave threat to the
publishing and entertainment industries. The nature of cyberspace may flip. Instead of
promoting free and open exchange, it my end up controlling our lives in ways we have
never imagined.
The internet seemed to be a vast, out of control copying machine, churning out a copying
machine. because of emerging encryption technology, we are “entering a time when
copyright is more effectively protected than at any time.
Intellectual property rights have traditionally balanced the interests of the producers, who
should be rewarded for their creative efforts, with those of society, which benefits from
the easy and widespread dissemination of ideas. The music industry pressured
manufacturers of digital audiotape machines to make their devices degrade copies of a
given work after a certain number of copies were made.
Bear in mind that publishers in other media have already had some success at imposing
rules that strength their rights.

2. Making Cyberspace Safe For Free speech:
The world wide web consortium work on its platform for internet content selection’
which enables the voluntary rating of content and filtering according to those ratings.
Both net scape and Microsoft already have PICS-complaint filters within their browser
software.
Filtering can be a powerful tool of censorship when applied upstream, especially if users
are unaware that it is happening.
Selling Privacy:
Free speech and intellectual property are big issues, especially for the entertainment and
publishing industries. But every company doing business on the internet needs to think
about privacy. The use of customer information is at the heart of virtually all business- to-
consumer e-commerce strategies.
The better move toward is to provide individuals with the rights to their own personal
information, require companies to clearly state and stand by their privacy policies.
Some companies will retain the right to sell consumer information or will simply violate
their stated policies against selling without permission.