“The poets are losing”

John Palfrey is blogging from the Internet Law 2003 Conference, at Harvard Law School. The title quote comes from a discussion of John Perry Barlow’s Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace. As Palfrey explains:

One of the lawyers in the class says “it’s dated.”  Why, we ask?  “The poets are losing,” he says.

The poets are losing. I wonder just how “independent” cyberspace truly is.