xvii, 410 pages : 24 cm

"Code counters the common belief that cyberspace cannot be controlled or censored. To the contrary, under the influence of commerce, cyberspace is becoming a highly regulable world where behavior will be much more tightly controlled than in real space."--Cover

Previously published: New York : Basic Books, ©1999, under title: Code and other laws of cyberspace

Includes bibliographical references and index

Preface to the second edition -- Preface to the first edition -- Code is law -- Four puzzles from cyberspace -- Part I: "Regulability." Is-ism : is the way it is the way it must be? ; Architectures of control ; Regulating code -- Part II: Regulation by code. Cyberspaces ; What things regulate ; The limits on open code -- Part III. Latent ambiguities. Translation ; Intellectual property ; Privacy ; Free speech ; Interlude -- Part IV. Competing sovereigns. Sovereignty ; Competition among sovereigns -- Part V: Responses. The problems we face ; Responses ; What Declan doesn't get -- Appendix

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