The Emergence of Digital Dilemna

"The internet caters to the best and the worst of human nature and needs regulation to stop depravity flooding cyberspace." -Pope John Paul. The World Wide Web started as an idea that focused around the government's need to communicate if there was a real war. In 1964 the Cold War was at its peak, the Advanced Researched Projects Agency, or ARPA began researching and developing a way to get computers to communicate with each other. The …

…on companies that infringe their products may prove to be somewhat successful but they cannot relax till the time the individual infringers are not dealt with properly. Fines on companies like Napster may not be able to dwarf the lack of action against millions of users who used Napster's service for their benefit. In the world where intellectual property is the greatest source to value, the challenge to protect the property takes on greater significance.