出版社：AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law
摘要：The Internet has become a valuable tool in everyday life and is a phenomenon that encompasses social, cultural, economic, and legal facets. Originally, the Internet address system was based on unique IP numbers assigned to every website. This allowed their identification by the system. In 1984, these addresses were translated from numbers into words, thereby facilitating their use.1 At the time of the Internet’s inception, scarcity of IP address space seemed to be unlikely as information and communication technologies (“ICT”) were cost-intensive and therefore only few networks were interested in Internet connections.2
