38 of the Copyright Act. We were told that we could travel freely between digital planets and acquire information and entertainment from millions of servers. Digital technology posed new challenges to copyright, and governments and international bodies began producing green books and whitepapers on how to pave the way for commerce with copyright works on the digital superhighways. Solving this issue is clearly of paramount importance. Most of us have long ago acquainted ourselves in the work place with LANs - Local Area Networks.
WANs are effective, but also expensive.
Over the years Kopinor has discovered that unauthorised digital duplication and storage of sizeable amounts of copyright works is taking place in closed information systems and digital archives. We have pointed out that digital technology opens up for large scale, illegal reproduction which poses a threat to authors and publishers which is far greater than today's massive photocopying. In the autumn of 1995 the concept of intranet blossomed. Articles in the specialised press illustrated that the development Kopinor had described over the years was gaining momentum. In 1996 corporations and institutions in all industrialised countries regarded Internet primarily as a vehicle to establish closed, internal networks , rather than as a tool for commerce for the general public.