Noise Wars: Is the Answer to the Machine in the Noise? 1
Nicklas Berild Lundblad · 2003
In this article we study the phenomenon of noise files, that is: files that are low-quality or harmful to the user in any way, and how the use of these files might be designed to disrupt the functioning of peer-to-peer networks. The aim of this study is to examine legal aspects of these coming ‘noise wars ’ and how they will affect the networks. The perspective taken is that of architecture regulation – the idea that code is law, as launched by Lawrence Lessig in Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (Basic Books 1999)