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Response to Who owns the internet? 2007-09-29 17:56:04 Reply

At 9/29/07 05:34 PM, ftballhero54 wrote: Who started it though? Wouldn't that person be the soul owner of the internet? Or did corporate businness just knock him off of the top?

*Sole, not soul

And the internet was started as the ARPANET long ago... nobody can own it.
Like, who owns the ocean? Nobody.


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Response to Who owns the internet? 2007-09-29 18:32:46 Reply

At 9/29/07 05:56 PM, PlatinumWarrior wrote:
At 9/29/07 05:34 PM, ftballhero54 wrote: Who started it though? Wouldn't that person be the soul owner of the internet? Or did corporate businness just knock him off of the top?
*Sole, not soul

And the internet was started as the ARPANET long ago... nobody can own it.
Like, who owns the ocean? Nobody.

Well.... actually A country owns the sorrounding waters. Lets say if the U.S. Took over australia, china, japan, the other surrounding counrires and the islands.....They would own all of the Pacific.


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Response to Who owns the internet? 2007-09-29 18:34:32 Reply

Kevin Ham & Tim Swanson.


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Response to Who owns the internet? 2007-09-29 18:47:53 Reply

At 9/29/07 06:34 PM, Re-Spawn wrote: Kevin Ham & Tim Swanson.

uuuhhh what?


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Response to Who owns the internet? 2007-09-29 18:50:29 Reply

At 9/29/07 05:28 PM, ftballhero54 wrote: Who owns it? I mean, when I tried to make a site it said it costs 11.95 a month. So who am I paying? Better yet who made it?

Some crazy little midget named Earl!


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Response to Who owns the internet? 2007-09-29 18:52:52 Reply

Al Gore. I'm serial.


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Response to Who owns the internet? 2007-09-29 18:54:41 Reply

No guys I'm SERIAL. I'm really serial! Theres a pigbear in that cave XD


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Response to Who owns the internet? 2007-09-29 19:09:14 Reply

At 9/29/07 06:47 PM, ftballhero54 wrote:
At 9/29/07 06:34 PM, Re-Spawn wrote: Kevin Ham & Tim Swanson.
uuuhhh what?

Kevin Ham, the $300 million master of Web domains.

Was a joke.

The U.S. government's ultimate control of the Domain Name System results in substantial power over the entire Internet. Other countries object to this American dominance and demand that control of the Internet be handed over to the UN or the ITU. The United States could have a legal claim for control based on ownership because the Internet is, or was at least originally, an American thing, invented and funded by the United States. The paper examines such an ownership idea by applying property and intellectual property law on both the American and the international level. An examination of ownership is crucial because other approaches that could provide a legal basis for special power, like sovereignty, face problems because U.S. sovereignty ends at its borders and conflicts with the sovereignty of other states that are affected by U.S. policy decisions about the Internet.


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Response to Who owns the internet? 2007-09-29 19:12:08 Reply

At 9/29/07 05:46 PM, AshfordPride wrote: Ted Stevens. He controls the tubes.

yeah
The series of tubes are his complete creation

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Response to Who owns the internet? 2007-09-29 20:04:19 Reply

i wish I owned the internet. I would rule the world!!!


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Response to Who owns the internet? 2007-09-29 20:04:56 Reply

Who owns the internet porn companies

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Response to Who owns the internet? 2007-09-29 20:06:24 Reply

Jesus owns the internet, duh!

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Response to Who owns the internet? 2007-09-29 20:08:48 Reply

I still don't understand how the internet works. Like, I know you make domains, and you can visit those domains with certain applications (Ie, Firefox, ect.) but like, Can someone explain it like thaty one dude tried, who was like "It's a series of Tubes". I don't understand WHERE the internet IS. It's like telling someone WHERE GRAVITY is.

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Response to Who owns the internet? 2007-09-29 20:15:40 Reply

The internet is on your computer.


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Response to Who owns the internet? 2007-09-29 20:21:04 Reply

At 9/29/07 08:04 PM, ftballhero54 wrote: i wish I owned the internet. I would rule the world!!!

can you comprehend the mass series of tubes that is the internets?

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Response to Who owns the internet? 2007-09-29 20:24:11 Reply

Kell owns the internet. Is it true? I do I do I DOOOoooo.


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Response to Who owns the internet? 2007-09-29 20:40:56 Reply

At 9/29/07 05:34 PM, killerfoot wrote: WADE FULPS DAD!

No, you dumb shit! It was obviously Tom Fulp's dad!

Wait, what?

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Response to Who owns the internet? 2007-09-29 20:49:06 Reply

I do harga blarga! *shoots beams out of eyes*, but really probably seperate internet companies.


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Response to Who owns the internet? 2007-09-29 20:52:10 Reply

Most likely a scientist that gets paid to discover the internets. Or a geeky kid in his garage who wanted to maintain his pornography from a distance.


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Response to Who owns the internet? 2007-09-29 21:10:16 Reply

At 9/29/07 05:30 PM, w4kcl wrote: Al Gore an if you make him angry. He will turn off the internet.

That would be very bad wouldn't it?

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Response to Who owns the internet? 2007-09-30 11:30:11 Reply

At 9/29/07 09:22 PM, MemoryCard wrote: If no one owns the internet then why can't I make a website without paying someone?

I agree

:Even though I already said that :P


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Response to Who owns the internet? 2007-09-30 11:53:22 Reply

Why, it's so simple, it's simply devious.

I own the internet.

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HUH-HUH-HUH-HUH-mwah-HAHA-HAH-HAH!!!!

Who owns the internet?


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Response to Who owns the internet? 2007-09-30 11:56:48 Reply

At 9/29/07 05:52 PM, KerfuffleMach2 wrote:
At 9/29/07 05:49 PM, MrFinland wrote: Bill Gates. Like you didn't know it was him.
I was about to say that.

Nope, he created and owns Microsoft.
The Internet is not 'owned' by anything or anyone.


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Response to Who owns the internet? 2007-09-30 11:58:58 Reply

Dr.Evil


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Response to Who owns the internet? 2007-09-30 12:14:08 Reply

At 9/29/07 05:52 PM, KerfuffleMach2 wrote:
At 9/29/07 05:49 PM, MrFinland wrote: Bill Gates. Like you didn't know it was him.
I was about to say that.

Son of a bitch.


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Response to Who owns the internet? 2007-09-30 12:22:47 Reply

RUDOLPH JULIANIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!


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Response to Who owns the internet? 2007-09-30 12:46:18 Reply

Furries


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Response to Who owns the internet? 2007-09-30 13:46:05 Reply

The Illuminatti of course

Who owns the internet?


In A world where the minnows outnumber the sharks a million to one! Why havn't we tooken the upper hand!
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Response to Who owns the internet? 2007-09-30 14:44:48 Reply

At 9/30/07 01:46 PM, Hijck32 wrote: The Illuminatti of course

Are talking about the guys from Area 51


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Response to Who owns the internet? 2007-09-30 14:49:09 Reply

At 9/30/07 02:48 PM, MemoryCard wrote:
At 9/30/07 01:46 PM, Hijck32 wrote: The Illuminatti of course
My birds are better than your bats.

but my stick people own yours! XD

Who owns the internet?


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