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http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/16/weekinreview/16JOHN.html

If You Can't Touch It, Can You Steal It?
By GEORGE JOHNSON

As computers become indispensable to modern life, the steepest learning curve society faces is not technical but philosophical. It is easy enough to learn, like a lab rat, to click a simulated button in a Web browser and download the patterns of symbols called computer programs. In a matter of seconds you are the proud owner of a new word processor, calculator or computer game — an invisible, virtual machine. Far more difficult is coming to grips with the nature of so intangible a possession....

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