* Book: Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias. Ed. by Peter Ludlow. MIT, 2001

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"A wide-ranging collection of writings on emerging political structures in cyberspace.

In 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."

(https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262621519/crypto-anarchy-cyberstates-and-pirate-utopias/)

"The book is organized in five sections. The first section considers the sovereignty of the Internet. The second section asks how widespread access to resources such as Pretty Good Privacy and anonymous remailers allows the possibility of "Crypto Anarchy"—essentially carving out space for activities that lie outside the purview of nation states and other traditional powers. The third section shows how the growth of e-commerce is raising questions of legal jurisdiction and taxation for which the geographic boundaries of nation-states are obsolete. The fourth section looks at specific experimental governance structures evolved by online communities. The fifth section considers utopian and anti-utopian visions for cyberspace."

(https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262621519/crypto-anarchy-cyberstates-and-pirate-utopias/)

I The Sovereignty of Cyberspace?

2 A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace 27 John Perry Barlow

3 Getting Our Priorities Straight 31 David Brin

4 United Nodes of Internet: Are We Forming a Digital Nation? 39 David S. Bennahum

5 HyperMedia Freedom 47 Richard Barbrook

II Crypto Anarchy

6 The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto 61 Timothy C. May

7 Crypto Anarchy and Virtual Communities 65 Timothy C. May

8 A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto 81 Eric Hughes

9 The Future of Cryptography 85 Dorothy E. Denning

10 Afterword to “The Future of Cryptography” 103 Dorothy E. Denning

11 Re: Denning’s Crypto Anarchy 105 Duncan Frissell

12 Hiding Crimes in Cyberspace 115 Dorothy E. Denning and William E. Baugh Jr.

III Shifting Borders: How VR Is Claiming Jurisdiction from RL

13 Law and Borders: The Rise of Law in Cyberspace 145 David R. Johnson and David G. Post

14 Anarchy, State, and the Internet: An Essay on Lawmaking in Cyberspace 197 David G. Post

15 Prop 13 Meets the Internet: How State and Local Government Finances Are Becoming Road Kill on the Information Superhighway 213 Nathan Newman

IV The Emergence of Law and Governance Structures in Cyberspace

16 Virtual(ly) Law: The Emergence of Law in LambdaMOO 245 Jennifer L. Mnookin

17 “help manners”: Cyberdemocracy and Its Vicissitudes 303 Charles J. Stivale

18 Due Process and Cyberjurisdiction 329 David R. Johnson

19 Virtual Magistrate Project Press Release 339

20 Virtual Magistrate Issues Its First Decision 343

V Utopia, Dystopia, and Pirate Utopias

21 Utopia Redux 349 Karrie Jacobs

22 The God of the Digerati 353 Jedediah S. Purdy

23 Californian Ideology 363 Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron

24 Bit Rot 389 Mark Dery

25 The Temporary Autonomous Zone 401 Hakim Bey

Appendix:

Interview with Noam Chomsky on Anarchism, Marxism, and Hope for the Future 435

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