Lessig's Four Themes

Lessig set up his book by telling the reader four different stories to communicate four themes that he plans on addressing. The first "regulability" was emphasized in the story about gambling and how a leader did not want her people gambling, but the people found a way to do so through the internet, because it was difficult to track down where the servers were. The second theme "regulation by code" describes regulability being capable by code. Each space on the iternet offers its own architecture, which determines its own set of rules. The third theme "latent ambiguity" relays the story of the worm and teeters on the idea as to whether the worm really breaches our rights. We would first need to re-examine the definition of "search" and how it is understood. What the amendment originally meant does not exactly match up with what the worm is doing, so there are quite a few holes to fall through. The last and fourth theme is "competing sovereigns" from the story about Jake from Ann Arbor. This theme discusses how the norms in cyber space are different, and do not necessarily relate or comply with other locations, such as reality.