Before the internet, issues of privacy were largely national affairs.
Yet combating such crimes seems to be among the easier Internet issues to handle.
Holland, a city of 32,000, is not alone in wrestling with Internet issues here.
Gains in Internet issues, however, helped support the technology-heavy Nasdaq despite losses in some other sectors, like semiconductor producers.
The Pirates, fashionable a couple of years ago but without content beyond geeky internet issues, are gone for all intents and purposes.
"This is less about stealing than it is about copying," said John G. Palfrey, a Harvard Law School professor who specializes in Internet issues and intellectual property.
Google said it would sponsor a traveling exhibit on the Mundaneum, as well as a series of talks on Internet issues, at the museum and the university.
He added that it was possible and even likely that the current F.C.C., which he said seemed more focused on Internet issues, could reinstate the 2008 rule.
With Internet companies, the trend is particularly marked — as detailed by Marketwatch.com's The Tell blog yesterday, since 2011, two out of three Internet issues have behaved this way.
Susan P. Crawford, who specializes in Internet issues at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, noted the sheet music industry's challenge to the new player piano technology in 1908.
Biotechnology shares were among the biggest losers, though investors were not selling these or speculative Internet issues to get out of the market.
