Future approach toward law making as well as e-government are in need of paradigm shift. This paper examines one of such new legal paradigm advocated by Jean Cohen and illustrates why it deserves our consideration through testing on a digital copyright legislation-Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Digital copyright protection issues are extremely controversial, and are highly interdisciplinary as they relate to both traditional legal scholarship and modern social political, economic and cultural dilemmas. Such a characteristic explains why the traditional law making approach is facing difficulty and why an approach that emphasizes more on dialogue and the cooperative relationship between government and self-regulatory efforts is essential in the future.