ABSTRACT
The legal environment of the Internet has often been compared with the Wild West in the days of the American frontier. This analogy is used to convey the wide open and freewheeling atmosphere that pervades this area of the law. The Internet, like many other technological phenomena, is developing along several parallel directions. The main line is the technology direction — those facets of networking, computing, software, and databases, which, when combined, add up to the ability to access the array of interconnected computers known as the Internet.
