Jermaine Proshee CIS 3100 MWF 10:00 Mr. Zolzer The Internet: "Advantage or Adversary" Imagine life today without the convenience of the Internet. People would actually have to get up out of their comfortable chairs, get in their cars, and drive to the store, the library, the mall, or wherever they wanted to go to purchase the product that they wanted. Many consumers are fed up with conventional shopping. The Internet is defined as global networks defined by a set of open standards for communicating data and information between computers. ...

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INTRODUCTION "Global computer-based communications cut across territorial borders, creating a new realm of human activity and undermining the feasibility "and legitimacy "of applying laws based on geographic boundaries."" (Post and Johnson 1996) The Internet is a relatively new phenomenon and this "cyberspace- is causing problems for regulatory systems. The Internet is a world that is very difficult to govern and it is because of this that criminals are discovering the net as a place to conduct illegal activity. It is the government's goal to understand the reasons ...

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