It was recently reported that Barrack, a billionaire, wrote a memo to his employees about an experience he had while taking some personal time on his yacht off the Turkish coast. (Employees love getting these sorts of memos.) Barrack reported that his eye suddenly fell upon, of all things, a copy of the book Twilight.

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In fact, one of the spooky things about cyberspace is that there is no difference between the original and a copy of a cyber object.

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Vudu is available on thousands of devices (including TVs and PlayStation consoles) and it can work with Wal-Mart to do things like offering a free digital copy of a movie like Toy Story 3 with every purchase of the physical DVD.

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The Harry Potter books (and Jim Dale's terrific readings for the audios ), Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, and even a well worn copy of a dusty old R.

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The record labels disagree, noting, among other things, that ReDigi is making a new copy of each file rather than re-selling the original copy, and that individuals have the ability to maintain copies of the files on other devices, which cannot be accomplished as easily in the hard-copy context.

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To keep things straightforward, the researchers chose to work with mice who carried just one copy of the gene.

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Women have fought long and hard to be included in the boardrooms and backrooms of an oft male-dominated society, but let's face it, sometimes they just want things men probably don't--like a curling iron or a copy of O, the Oprah magazine.

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As emotional beings, they decide based on things like hype, rushing and racing to copy and imitate other consumers, and to take advantage of limited time offers that fear they may lose out.

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