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In November 1999, the Harvard campus was in the thick of autumn. Professor Lawrence Lessig sat in his office. He became famous for being a neutral legal expert in the Microsoft antitrust case. In a dozen days, his new book "Code: and Other Laws of Cyberspace" will be published.
The Internet wave swept the United States in the 1990s. A few years ago, Lessig was thinking about a seemingly simple question: in traditional society, behavior is constrained by law, morality, market and physical laws. But in cyberspace, these constraints seem to have become blurred, but there is another constraint that seems to be more direct. System administrators control user behavior by setting permissions. This control is not achieved by threatening punishment, but directly determines what is possible and what is impossible. "In the Unix system, if you don't have permission, you just can't open the file," he wrote in his notebook, "This is not a legal constraint, but something more fundamental." 0 reply
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