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The thing with Disney is that those characters were created by someone in a creative pursuit. IP addresses, on the other hand, are simply pointers to some location, and so it's an unknown if they can be covered under IP law. Digital copies of media only count as property because of that IP law, or they would be worthless because they can be copied infinitely.



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