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Technology Stocks : COMS & the Ghost of USRX w/ other STUFF
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To: Scrapps who wrote (15903)6/7/1998 11:44:00 PM
From: Moonray  Read Replies (2) of 22053
 
EXPERTS SAY GERMAN LAWS ARE BLOCKING THE INTERNET'S GROWTH

Berlin (dpa) - According to the American Web expert Jack Powers,
the development of the Internet in Germany is being hindered by too
many laws.

''The view is widespread that Europe in general is trailing behind
in the Internet. In Germany in particular, the laws which regulate
personal and data protection hide the danger that the country is being
put at a disadvantage,'' said Powers in an interview with the German
news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) on Wednesday at the Internet
World trade show in Berlin.

Powers leads the conference activities of U.S. Web publisher
Mecklermedia which organises Internet World in 20 countries worldwide.

In Powers' view, business conducted between individual companies
over the Net is not in so much danger, such as electronic sales by a
company to a private customer.

''Trading on the Web thrives on companies being able to adjust
their offers to every customer's needs.'' In 20 years every Web page
will look different according to which user accesses it. ''That will
only work if customer data can be saved to a database.''

Powers named the United States as a good model: ''The government
there has so far kept its fingers off the Web. This is why the
American contribution to the Internet has been able to expand freely -
and has become so dominant.''

''On the other hand,'' he went on, ''it's easy to come to Europe
from America and say: Do it just like us.''

''A 'Silicon Valley teenager culture' has spread through much of
the Web. It's quick, efficient, often brutal and gets its own way
almost everywhere.''

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