Edit: This only refers to costs (paid by the manufacturers), not fees (paid for by the buyers).

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    With the interpretation of the internet being teleportation of data, your Webbrowser becomes a replicator of data, as e.g. the video that you are streaming from YouTube is merely being copied from its servers, but not deleted from its source.

    In general computers are just copying data, i.e. replicating data.

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      wait so if data is like dna, does that make computers like plants with their pollen being data packets like memes, articles, and videos… and we’re the pollinators?