The four-modality regulation model (law, norms, market, architecture) explains how copyright control operates: the Internet changed architecture (copying became costless), which prompted law changes to restore control through technology protection and legal expansion to maintain the prior balance.

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Lawrence Lessig

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A restriction imposed by one modality might be erased by another.
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