[Nettime-bold] book announcement--Biegel

[Jud Wolfskill <wolfskil@MIT.EDU>]

I thought readers of NETTIME-L might be interested in this book.  For more 
information please visit http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262025043

Beyond Our Control?
Confronting the Limits of Our Legal System in the Age of Cyberspace
Stuart Biegel

This book provides a framework for thinking about the law and cyberspace, 
examining the extent to which the Internet is currently under control and 
the extent to which it can or should be controlled. It focuses in part on 
the example of MP3 file-sharing, a file format that enables users to store 
large audio files with near-CD sound quality on a computer. By 1998, 
software available for free on the Web enabled users to copy existing 
digital files from CDs. Later technologies such as Napster and Gnutella 
allowed users to exchange MP3 files in cyberspace without having to post 
anything online. This ability of online users to download free music caused 
an uproar among music executives and many musicians, as well as a range of 
much-discussed legal action.

Regulation strategies identified and discussed include legislation, policy 
changes, administrative agency activity, international cooperation, 
architectural changes, private ordering, and self-regulation. The book also 
applies major regulatory models to some of the most volatile Internet 
issues, including cyber-security, consumer fraud, free speech rights, 
intellectual property rights, and file-sharing programs.

Stuart Biegel is a member of the faculty at the Graduate School of 
Education and Information Studies and the School of Law at the University 
of California, Los Angeles.

6 x 9, 468 pp.
cloth ISBN 0-262-02504-3

Jud Wolfskill
Associate Publicist
MIT Press
5 Cambridge Center, 4th Floor
Cambridge, MA  02142
617.253.2079
617.253.1709 fax
wolfskil@mit.edu

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