Abstract: It is well established that information constitutes a third dimension, beyond matter and energy, and is designated by cybernetics as any data which substantially alters the receiver’s perceptions, and affects the content of his/her decisions. These basic characteristics are also shared by digital information, although only that which is produced and distributed digitally can be conceived of as such. Digital information is the dominant element underlying development in postindustrial societies. It is ‘born’ and ‘lives’ in an electronic, interconnected environment, structuring not relations of command / ownership / exploitation, but of access and networks of distribution, occupying time more than space, by means of the possibility of its distribution to more people. The digitalization of information, which has contributed to the acceleration of its autonomization from the Individual it refers to, constitutes a unique item present in exchanges and relations in the age of the internet. These characteristics of digital information have a direct functional link with the development of the latter, or multinational, (inter)net capitalism which we are currently traversing. In this
manner digital information is gradually established as the ultimate object of transaction and experiences further autonomization. In turn, Law on both international and Hellenic levels, recognizes and attempts to regulate this reality.
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