"The Internet. We think of it as a marvellous, sprawling, open market, a worldwide bazaar in which ideas and information are free for the taking. But increasingly the Internet is becoming a commercial market for selling information. Corporations are beginning to wrest the Net from the people. A...

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1. Verfasser:	Gutstein, Donald (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Toronto Stoddart 1999
Schlagworte:	Internet - Aspect social - Canada Internet - Aspect économique - Canada Internet - Politique gouvernementale - Canada Gesellschaft Politik Freedom of information > Canada Internet industry > Canada Internet > Economic aspects > Canada Internet > Government policy > Canada Internet > Social aspects > Canada Kanada
Zusammenfassung:	"The Internet. We think of it as a marvellous, sprawling, open market, a worldwide bazaar in which ideas and information are free for the taking. But increasingly the Internet is becoming a commercial market for selling information. Corporations are beginning to wrest the Net from the people. And governments are helping the corporations, by selling them publicly financed information systems." "Firms and mega tycoons -- Disney and Time-Warner and billionaires Rupert Murdoch and Bill Gates and their ilk -- are building enormous telecommunications empires. Their strategy is to create an infrastructure that will force all present and future Internet applications to operate under their intellectual property rights regime." "What this will mean to public rights and enterprise is the subject of this timely book. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:	320 S.
ISBN:	0773760563