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Cyberspace as Place and the Tragedy of the Digital Anticommons

Dan Hunter

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competitors' cyberspace "assets" without a license or other transactionally expensive or impossible permission mechanism.This Article explains how the CYBERSPACE AS PLACE metaphor leads to undesirable private control of the previously commons-like Internet and the emergence of a digital anticommons.As we all stake out our little claims in cyberspace, we destroy the cyberspace commons.

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competitors' cyberspace "assets" without a license or other transactionally expensive or impossible permission mechanism.This Article explains how the CYBERSPACE AS PLACE metaphor leads to undesirable private control of the previously commons-like Internet and the emergence of a digital anticommons.As we all stake out our little claims in cyberspace, we destroy the cyberspace commons.

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competitors' cyberspace "assets" without a license or other transactionally expensive or impossible permission mechanism.This Article explains how the CYBERSPACE AS PLACE metaphor leads to undesirable private control of the previously commons-like Internet and the emergence of a digital anticommons.As we all stake out our little claims in cyberspace, we destroy the cyberspace commons.

Key concepts: Cyberspace, Tragedy (event), Law and economics, Political science, Sociology, Computer security, Computer science, The Internet

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