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The War Against Illegal File-sharing Is Like The Church's Age-old War Against Masturbation. It's A War You Just Can't Win.

There Is A Regulation Of Behavior On The Internet And In Cyberspace, But That Regulation Is Imposed Primarily Through Code. The Differences In The Regulations Effected Through Code Distinguish Different Parts Of The Internet And Cyberspace. In Some Places, Life Is Fairly Free; In Other Places, It Is More Controlled. And The Difference Between These Spaces Is Simply A Difference In The Architectures Of Control--that Is, A Difference In Code.

And With A Practice Of Writing Comes A Certain Important Integrity. A Culture Filled With Bloggers Thinks Differently About Politics Or Public Affairs, If Only Because More Have Been Forced Through The Discipline Of Showing In Writing Why A Leads To B.

While The Creative Works From The 16th Century Can Still Be Accessed And Used By Others, The Data In Some Software Programs From The 1990s Is Already Inaccessible.

Legislation Needs A Better Reason Than That Lawyers Like It, And That America Does It.