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Summary of the chapter
Overview
Institutional Ecology and Path Dependence
The Physical Layer
Transport: Wires and Wireless
Devices
The Logical Layer
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998
The Battle over Peer-to-Peer Networks
The Domain Name System: From Public Trust to the Fetishism of Mnemonics
The Browser Wars
Free Software
The Content Layer
Copyright
Contractual Enclosure: Click-Wrap Licenses and the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA
Trademark Dilution
Database Protection
Linking and Trespass to Chattels: New Forms of Information Exclusivity
International "Harmonization"
Countervailing Forces
The Problem of Security
Sources
Sources cited in the chapter
Other relevant readings
Case Studies
Supporting examples
Counter-examples
Key Concepts