

Lessig acknowledges that there are those who continue to disagree with his viewpoint, but adamantly maintains that the Internet will increasingly evolve in a more regulable direction. Regulation of the Internet was imminent, and so the author thought it necessary to update the work. The original argument that Lessig took issue with was weakened in the years following the book's release, as it became widely acknowledged that government The book is an update to Lessig's book Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, which was written in response and opposition to the notion that state governments could not regulate cyberspace and the Internet. Governments have broad regulatory powers over the Code: Version 2.0 is a 2006 book by Harvard law professor
