This video was originally published at Big Think on August 28, 2009.

Jonathan Zittrain, a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, discusses how stock spam affects stock prices and who truly makes money:

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