cted to rise to 4.5 million devices (Niermann, et al, 1999, p. 4).
Asia represents, as a whole, over half of the population for this planet. Asia has approximately seven (7) percent of the Internet population and will likely increase only by a few percent by 2003 (Ernst, 2001). An equally large challenge is adapting the economic infrastructure and institution of the other developing nations within Asia (aside from Japan) to the pace of change that is occurring as a result of the presence of the Internet. Add to this the complexity of the legal issues involved and the recipe only becomes more convoluted and uncertain.
The issue of what constitutes doing business on the Internet is gray. Recent cases of international jurisdiction pertaining to the Internet have included an action by Playboy Entertainment against an Italian company that provided adult-oriented content on-line using a name that Playboy considered infringement of its intellectual property rights. Another involved the prosecution of the president of CompuServe Germany by th
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