The Indian Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1933 — The Centre For Web And Society (3)
Some of the world’s most essential buildings are lighthouses. Lighthouses have been used to direct ships to harbors all over the world for many centuries. They also warn ships at sea about unsafe weather circumstances such as fog or approaching storms. Over the previous century, gentle stations have been used for relaying radio and telegraph messages and when mandatory, for helping to coordinate search and rescue missions at sea.
He argued that information, in contrast to communication, can easily be commodified – that it may be bought and offered. He pointed to the emphasis on copyright points as one example of the focus on commodifying cyberspace. Copyright has been an area of conflict because the earliest days of the web – the so-calledHacker Crackdown” centred as a lot on the unlawful free distribution of copyrighted materials as on the hacking itself. (Sterling, 1992) Enforcement of copyright law – i.e. making … Read the rest