CCT109H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Online Gambling, Internet Taxes, Telemedicine

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT109H5
• Professor: Brett Caraway

Document Summary

It is intangible, geographically distributed, recombinant and continually changing in its form and character: characteristics confront the legal tradition (where there is person liability and the information and evidence must be written down) Instead, detailed alterations are made to existing legislation including technical definition that will soon be outdated. Fragmentary adjustments to legislation are not suitable for the regulation of large-scale networks and their far-reaching consequences to individuals and society at large(cid:523) Governance: rather than understanding various attempts at internet regulation in terms of law, internet regulation can be understood in terms of governance, governance, an amalgam of policy, regulation, law, commercial and consumer practices, and organizational behaviour. Icann: private, not-for-profit agency representing both the global internet community, business and otherwise. Includes those involved in domain name registration and those seeking to register online domain names in order to pursue electronic commerce.