ABSTRACT
Cyberspace transactions 'are not significantly less resistant to the tools of conflict of laws, than other transnational transactions', and it would therefore be a mistake to 'underestimate the potential of traditional legal tools and technology to resolve the multijurisdictional regulatory problems implicated by cyberspace'. Therefore, if Digitalbooks' cyberspace activities produce 'substantial local effects' in Singapore, or in England, those activities can 'legitimately be regulated' by those governments. The Unexceptionalists say that it has not; activity in cyberspace is 'functionally identical to transnational activity mediated by other means, such as mail or telephone or smoke signal'. A plot of the location of all events and transactions taking place in cyberspace that have an effect on persons and property in Singapore has virtually no geographical structure at all; points of light wildly scatters about the map, seemingly at random. Against Cyberanarchy has been one of the most influential and oft-cited pieces in the cyberspace law canon.
