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2 Colum. Sci. & Tech. L. Rev. 1 (2000-2001)

handle is hein.journals/cstlr2 and id is 1 raw text is: The Columbia SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LAW REVIEW http://www.law.columbia.edu/stlr Privatization and Commercialization of the Internet Infrastructure: Rethinking Market Intervention into Government and Government Intervention into the Market* Brett Frischmann INTRODUCTION While some, if not many, people imagine that the Internet is and should continue to be the product of pure, free market competition, this view ignores reality.' The U.S. government funded much of the early Copyright C 2001 Brett Frischmann. * Cite as Brett Frischmann, Privatization and Commercialization of the Internet Infrastructure: Rethinking Market Intervention into Government and Government Intervention into the Market, 2 COLUM. ScL. & TECH. L. REv. 1 (June 8, 2001) <http://www.stlr.org/cite.cgi?volume=2&article=1>. Attorney with Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, D.C.; J.D., Georgetown University Law Center; M.S., B.A., Columbia University. The author thanks David Bollier, Julie Cohen, Louise Gibney, Brian Kahin, Jay McDannell and Dan Moylan for their review of earlier drafts and helpful comments. In addition, he thanks Chin Yoo and the staff of the Columbia Science & Technology Law Review for their excellent editorial assistance. The views presented are solely those of the author. See e.g., Steve Bickerstaff, Shackles on the Giant: How the Federal Government Created Microsoft, Personal Computers, and the Internet, 78 TEX. L. Rv. 1 (1999) (arguing persuasively that the federal government played a significant role in the Copyright C 2001 The Columbia Science and Technology Law Review. AllRights Reserved