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Release NotesIn Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias, Peter Ludlow extends the
approach he used so successfully in High Noon on the Electronic Frontier,
offering a collection of writings that reflects the eclectic nature of the
online world, as well as its tremendous energy and creativity. This time the
subject is the emergence of governance structures within online communities and
the visions of political sovereignty shaping some of those communities. Ludlow
views virtual communities as laboratories for conducting experiments in the
construction of new societies and governance structures. While many online
experiments will fail, Ludlow argues that given the synergy of the online world,
new and superior governance structures may emerge. Indeed, utopian visions are
not out of place, provided that we understand the new utopias to be fleeting
localized "islands in the Net" and not permanent institutions.

Table of Contents

Series Foreword
Preface
About the Contributors
1 New Foundations: On the Emergence of Sovereign Cyberstates and Their
Governance Structures 1
I The Sovereignty of Cyberspace? 25
2 A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace 27
3 Getting Our Priorities Straight 31
4 United Nodes of Internet: Are We Forming a Digital Nation? 39
5 HyperMedia Freedom 47
II Crypto Anarchy 59
6 the Crypto Anarchist Manifesto 61
7 Crypto Anarchy and Virtual Communities 65
8 A Cypherpunk's Manifesto 81
9 The Future of Cryptography 85
10 Afterword to "The Future of Cryptography" 103
11 Re: Denning's Crypto Anarchy 105
12 Hiding Crimes in Cyberspace 115
III Shifting Borders: How VR Is Claiming Jurisdiction from RL 143
13 Law and Borders: The Rise of Law in Cyberspace 145
14 Anarchy, State, and the Internet: An Essay on Lawmaking in Cyberspace
197
15 Prop 13 Meets the Internet: How State and Local Government Finances Are
Becoming Road Kill on the Information Superhighway 213
IV The Emergence of Low and Governance Structures in Cyberspace 243
16 Virtual(ly) Law: The Emergence of Law in LambdaMOO 245
17 "help manners": Cyberdemocracy and Its Vicissitudes 303
18 Due Process and Cyberjurisdiction 329
19 Virtual Magistrate Project Press Release 339
20 Virtual Magistrate Issues Its First Decision 343
V Utopia, Dystopia, and Pirate Utopias 347
21 Utopia Redux 349
22 The God of the Digerati 353
23 Californian Ideology 363
24 Bit Rot 389
25 The Temporary Autonomous Zone 401
App Interview with Noam Chomsky on Anarchism, Marxism, and Hope for the
Future 435
Name Index 451
Index of Corporations, Organizations, Agencies, and Other Groups 459
Subject Index 463

Product Details

* ISBN: 0262621517
* ISBN-13: 9780262621519
* Format: Paperback, 451pp
* Publisher: MIT Press
* Pub. Date: April 2001
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