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Introduction Internet regulation has become one of the hottest and arguably most important areas of law today. It is the place where the wave of Internet revolution crashes up against the complete system of governance itself. We are still at a very early stage in governing the internet- a frontier area- where there is little concrete guidance and, unfortunately, more questions than answers. In and around the year 2000, e-commerce, the internet, the legal system and governments began to have their first set of skirmishes and terms like "napster", "metatags", "browser integration", and "cyber squatting" entered the legal lexicon. This assignment gives an overview of some of the most interesting issues and themes in regulating the net and shows how developments on the internet are pushing the traditional legal and governance concepts and raising difficult issues for legislators, lawyers and judges trying to adapt existing law to these new ways of doing...

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