area in which Lessig sees Internet code as a means of circumventing federal, state and national laws. In fact, he considers the Internet to be "perhaps the most important model of free speech since the founding" of the United States (167).
The fourth area Lessig defines as crucial is the ability of governments to maintain national sovereignty as cyberspace develops. In particular, the ubiquity of the Internet means that people can now come under the jurisdiction of sovereignties that do not exercise coordinating behavior. For example, every state in the United States coordinates its behavior with the federal government. But what about a person in Pennsylvania, for example, who engages in Internet behavior that subjects him to the jurisdiction of Finland, for example. Bu
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