John Palfrey is blogging from the Internet Law 2003 Conference, at Harvard Law School. The title quote comes from a discussion of John Perry Barlow's Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace. As Palfrey explains:
One of the lawyers in the class says "it's dated." Why, we ask? "The poets are losing," he says.
The poets are losing. I wonder just how "independent" cyberspace truly is.