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Of Black Holes And Decentralized Law Making In Cyberspace, David G. Post
Of Black Holes And Decentralized Law Making In Cyberspace, David G. Post
Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law
MAPS, the primary focus of this tale, is a California non-profit limited liability company. It coordinates a kind of group boycott by Internet service providers (ISPs) for the purpose of reducing the flow of what is commonly called "spam"- unsolicited bulk e-mail. It operates, roughly, as follows. The managers of MAPS create and maintain what they call the "Realtime Blackhole List" (RBL), which consists of a long list of Internet addresses. They place on the RBL any Internet address from which, to their knowledge, spam has originated. They also place on the RBL the address of any network that allows …