This is a way of establishing a distinction between active website and passive website. Lawyers are used to thinking of new issues in comparing existing solutions. However, the internet seems to develop particular specifications, which have consequences in term of liability, never seen before. For example, the web is a free, world-wide service. Prior technologies are limited to the access to the technology.
Resources are either rare or expensive.
Comparatively, the internet is a revolution as essential as that of the the print media in the 1800's. However, because of virtual and digital materials, universal communication, the number of participants, and the technology itself,identification is increasingly difficult to determine. On the web, anyone can become an active operator, offering a service free from control. Anyone can have access to the world-wide market and become a merchant. In previous technologies, contracts were not made in the media.