capture of the innovation process -- relocating it back to where it was -- as a
response to the structures originally enabled by the Internet itself.

Put differently, this is a story about changes in code, both East Coast (by
lawmakers in Washington) and West Coast (by software writers in Silicon
Valley) code, which will restore some of the power of the old against some
of the threat of the new.

My claim is not that therefore no change will occur. Obviously, the world
will be different when it is Internet enabled from how it was before the
Internet. But it will not be as different as the platform promised, and the
changes back to the model of the dark ages are not supported, or justified,
by the economics that justified the dark ages. Instead, the power that is cre-
ated here is importantly artificial -- the product of legal rights created in the
air and defended with the vigor of courts and code.

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