Cyberspace as Place and the Tragedy of the Digital Anticommons

Cyberspace was once thought to be the modern equivalent of the Western Frontier, a place where land was free for the taking. This is true no longer. This Article argues that we are enclosing cyberspace and imposing private property conceptions upon it. As a result, we are creating a digital anticommons where suboptimal use of Internet resources will be the norm.