《数字化生存》一书的作者尼古拉·尼葛洛庞帝 (ＮｉｃｈｏｌａｓＮｅｇｒｏｐｏｎｔｅ)用“垂死的鱼”来描述我们现在的法律面对“数字世界”时出现的窘境。他说 ,“这些垂死挣扎的鱼拼命喘着气 ,因为数字世界是个截然不同的地方。……电脑空间的法律中 ,没有国家法律的容身之 Nicholas Negroponte, author of Digitized Survival, uses Dying Fish to describe the dilemma that our current law faces in the “digital world.” He said, "These dying fish are gasping for gas because the digital world is a very different place .... There is no national law in cyberspace