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THE INTERNET The Internet has the made the world a smaller place. The discovery of digitization yielded an easy and inexpensive method to create an unlimited number of exact copies. The Internet allows "such digitized information to be instantaneously uploaded and downloaded by an unlimited number of users. Information in diversified media can be converted into a single digital stream and can easily be manipulated to create a variety of new works" [FN1]. Thus, information …

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