26. Privacy, at least, is a relatively familiar concept, susceptible of definition on the Net by reference to analogies with mail systems, telephone calls and print publication of invasive materials. But many new issues posed by phenomena unique to the Net are not even so familiar. Because electronic communications are not necessarily tied to real world identities, new questions about the rights to continued existence, or to protection of the reputation, of a pseudonym arise. The potential to launch a computer virus or to "spam the net" by sending multiple offpoint messages to newsgroups, for example, creates a need to define rules governing online behavior. When large numbers of people collaborate across the net to create services or works of value, we will face the question whether they have formed a corporate entity or partnership--with rights and duties of its own that are distinct from those of the individual participants--in a context in which there may have been no "registration" with any particular geographic authority and the rights of any such authority to regulate that new "legal person" remain unsettled.