Re-Positioning the Law of Theft in View Of Recent
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https://doi.org/10.17159/1727-3781/2016/v19i0a1163Keywords:
ICTs, World Wide Web, Internet, Hardware, SoftwareAbstract
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) continue to influence the behaviour of society. Sometimes this influence is so unreal that it was only imagined in science fiction. Specifically, the rapid rise in the use of ICTs has resulted in the emergence of new kinds of object, namely data, that do not necessarily meet the traditional legal discription of property. Because these objects can be wrongfully appropriated online, an inquiry is then made regarding whether they are property that is capable of being stolen.
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