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A Michigan college student posts sadistic fantasy about a classmate to an Internet newsgroup and is charged with the threat to injure. A postal inspector in Memphis, Tennessee downloads a pornographic image off the Internet and the California couple who posted it is arrested for violating Tennessee's obscenity laws. A programmer's encryption software is duplicated by someone else and sent overseas via the Internet; the programmer is charged with illegal export of munitions. The three …

…offer a number of interesting solutions that avoid trampling all over guarantees of freedom of speech, press, and religion. The book has numerous stories, as well as fascinating details of earlier legislation struggles over technologies such as radio, television, and the telephone, which it applies to the controversies over the Internet. They have produced one of the more important books about cyberspace. It is well researched and can be easily understood by the common reader.