Samuelson challenged the second idea-that cyberspace could not be regulated by government. For as Samuelson saw it, the law was already threatening an important regulation of life in cyberspace. Not directly, of course, but indirectly-through a series of changes threatened by the Administration's White Paper on Intellectual Property. These changes, designed to increase the law's protection for intellectual property, threatened to fundamentally queer the architectures of cyberspace. Laws would have their effect, if only indirectly, by inducing changes in the lex that Reidenberg spoke of.
Time works changes.
The views of these two crazies have now become mainstream. Everyone now gets how the architecture of cyberspace is, in effect, a regulator. Everyone now understands that the freedom or control that one knows in cyberspace is a function of its code. The differences in these worlds are differences in the code of these worlds. Different code, different regulation, different worlds.