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Whilst the issue of jurisdiction — the question of how far control extends — has always been controversial, the introduction of information and communications technologies only exacerbates the problem. The first generation of scholars to consider this question tended to see technology creating a separate space — cyberspace — with its own legal boundaries. A second generation of scholars, however, has argued that there is nothing new with cyberspace and that conflicts over boundaries have always existed in the law; as a result, they argue that technology is not as remarkable a factor as the first generation believe. By considering the case of copyright and peer-to-peer technologies together with the regulatory environments surrounding their development, use and control, this paper proposes a further refinement in the dialectics of control through technology that refines our notions of jurisdiction in an era of globalisation enabled by new technologies.
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Tsiavos, P., Hosein, I., Whitley, E.A. (2003). The Footprint of Regulation. In: Korpela, M., Montealegre, R., Poulymenakou, A. (eds) Organizational Information Systems in the Context of Globalization. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 126. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35695-2_22
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