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Zittrain born 24 december 1969 is an american professor of internet law and the. Most people think the internet is a good thing, so why try to stop it. The book discusses several legal issues regarding the internet the book is made available under the creative commons attribution noncommercial sharealike 3. This book concentrates on the central elements of what zittrain calls generative solutions. In the future of the internetand how to stop it he develops an elaborate and denselyargued sociolegal doctrine designed to. The future of the internetand how to stop it jonathan zittrain 246 pages yale university press.
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