CyberLaw 93 03
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CyberLaw
· 28 Dec 2019
[CyberLaw (tm) 3/93] EFF: PUBLIC ADVOCACY & CYBERSPACE I. THE LAW COMES TO CYBERSPACE Three years ago, in April 1990, John Perry Barlow (previously best known as a song writer for the Grateful Dead) received a call from an FBI agent, asking if Barlow would meet with him to discuss an investigation. As described by Barlow, the agent "had been sent to find out if I might be a member of the NuPrometheus League, a dread band of info-terrorists (or maybe just a disaffected former Apple employee) who had stolen and wantonly distributed source code normally used in the Macintosh ROMs." Barlow posted an account of the FBI agent's visit on th...