Or at least, were justified no more. For the argument of the third and
final part of this book is that the environment of the Internet is now chang-
ing. Features of the architecture -- both legal and technical -- that originally
created this environment of free creativity are now being changed. They are
being changed in ways that will reintroduce the very barriers that the Inter-
net originally removed.

These barriers, however, don't have the neutral justification that the
constraints of real-space economics do.[1-15] If there are constraints here, it
is simply because we are building them in. And as I will argue, there are
strong reasons why many are trying to rebuild these constraints: they will en-
able these existing and powerful interests to protect themselves from the
competitive threat the Internet represents. The old, in other words, is bend-
ing the Net to protect itself against the new.

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