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Index
Half title
Title page
Imprints page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 The Death of Property
What is Property?
A Property Primer
Defining Smart, Digital, and Traditional Property
Different Approaches to Property
The Path of Property Law
Disentangling Intangibility
Intellectual Property Takeover
Copies and Copyright
MAI and the RAM Copy Doctrine
DMCA 1201: Locking Owners Out
Exhausting Exhaustion
Antitrust and Aftermarket Control
Contract without Consent
Catch 22.0
Contracts Everywhere!
Property Is Dead – Long Live Property!
3 Surrounded
The Elements of the Internet of Things
Sensors
Sensor Fusion and Algorithmic Inferences
Connectivity
Mobility and Miniaturization
Infrastructure
Smart Homes
Smart Workplaces
Smart Cities
Robotics
Virtuality
Property in the Internet of Things
Out of (our) Control
4 So What?
Independence
Independence of Action
Independence of Thought
Identity
Wealth
Efficiency
Exploitation
Property as Repository of Wealth
A Market of One
5 Private Property
How Property Helps Stop Government Snooping
Trespass on Property and the Fourth Amendment
Reasonable Expectations of Privacy
Adding Property Back: Kyllo and Jardines
Smart Property and the Fourth Amendment: Jones and Riley
Property and the Third-Party Exception
How Property Helps Stop Private Snooping
What Property Does for Privacy
Property, Privacy, and the Internet of Things
Protecting Personal Property
Protecting the Smart Home
Protecting Device-Sourced Data
Upgrading Privacy
6 Property as Information
Rebooting Property
Property and Information
Horizontal Information: Who Gets It Now?
The Information of Possession
Vertical Information: Who Gets It Next?
Information and Physicality
The Information of Physicality
The Information of “Thing”-ness
Rivalrousness and Scarcity
The Information of Property
Numerus Clausus: Movie Night
Modularity: A Lesson from Legos
Creating Digital Things
Challenges to Property-as-Information
Enforcing Property
Information Is Not Property
The Informational Heart of Property
7 The Future of Property
The Bitcoin Blockchain
Why Blockchain Tech Matters
Why Johnny Can't Sell His MP3s
Double Spending, Copying, and Counterfeiting
Cryptoledgers
Encryption and Authentication
Mining and Preventing Falsification
What This Means
Tying Assets to the Blockchain
Public and Accessible Property
Cost and Trust
Decentralization
Decentralizing Electronic Ownership
8 Jailbreaking Ownership
Task 1: Update Smart and Digital Property Ownership
Right 1: The Right to Hack
Restoring the Right to Repair
“F – You, Windows 10!”
Hacking Software Monoculture
Hacking a Path Forward
Right 2: The Right to Sell
Right 3: The Right to Run
Right 4: The Right to Ban
A Thought Exercise in Digital Exclusion
Backing Up the Right to Ban
Task 2: Limit the Reach of Contractual Licenses
Strengthening Exhaustion
Abolishing RAM Copies
Separating Contractual Promises from IP License Conditions
Retooling Consent
Task 3: Make Minimum Necessary Changes to Statutory Law
Task 4: Foster Technological Shifts to Jailbreak Ownership
Third-Party Technologies
Open-source
Root Access
Modularity: Removability and Interoperability
How to Get First-Party Developers to Help
Obviousness
Simplicity
Default
Breaking Free
9 Owners or Owned?
Freedom and Feudalism
Restoring Intellectual Property
Concluding Words
Index
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