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| | Nat' Academies Press, The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Age (2000) |
 | | The addition of an ''Information Sector" category to the federal government's new industry classification system is recognition of both the sector's economic importance and the fundamental kinship of publishing (print and software), motion picture and sound recording, radio and television broadcasting, libraries, and information and data processing services. |
 | | The Web is an information resource of extraordinary size and depth, yet it is also an information reproduction and dissemination facility of great reach and capability; it is at once one of the world's largest libraries and surely the world's largest copying machine. |
 | | Copying digital information, even on a home computer, is easy and inexpensive: A standard (1.44 megabyte) floppy disk, which holds the equivalent of about 500 pages of text, takes no more than a minute to duplicate and is treated as if it were a piece of paper (e.g., routinely given away). |
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