It has been a decade since book-length writing about law and the Internet began in earnest. Ethan Katsh’s wonderful book Law in a Digital World (1995) is just over a decade old, and anticipated the flood. My first book, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999), is just under. Most of these early books had a common character. We were all trying first to make the obscure understandable, and second, to draw lessons from the understood about how law and technology needed to interact. As obscurity began to fade (as the network became more familiar), a different pattern began to emerge: cheerleading. Many of us (or at least.
