...top It Jonathan Zittrain Yale University Press New Haven & London A Caravan book. For more information, visit www.caravanbooks.org. The cover was des... ...n. All rights reserved. Subject to the exception immediately following, this book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations,... ...05.875.I57Z53 2008 004.67 80112—dc22 2007050361 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. The paper in this book meets ... ...provider needed CompuServe’s approval. CompuServe entered into develop- ment agreements with outside content providers 10 like the Associated Press an... ... harvested from the hard disk of the machine itself or gleaned from Internet searches, with the entire process typically unnoticeable to the PC’s owne... ...s owner. At one point, a single botnet occupied 15 percent of Yahoo’s entire search capacity, running random searches on Yahoo to find text that could ... ...send 229,468 distinct messages to 3,360,181 would-be recipients. 58 (The re- searcher’s computer pretended to deliver on the spam, but in fact threw i... ... MP3 playback software in version 6.0 of AOL ’s soft- ware in violation of a settlement agreement between PlayMedia and a company that AOL had acquire... ... how copies of the band Negativland’s release U2 were impounded as part of a settlement agreement between the band and Island Records establishing tha...

...This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity?and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is...