Who does the "digital heritage" belong to?

Source: Guangming, Xinhua, China Radio Network "Core hints": In this fast-changing digital age, online virtual property is also worth a lot of people do not figure out, the property in the owner after the death of how to deal with the problem again before.　　A recent British survey shows that many people have taken this as a serious issue and have adopted a will to distribute their "digital heritage".　　The Battle of the Dead Soldier's mailbox password 2005, the Iraqi battlefield, a computer is the United States Marine Corps engineers Carl Lin and the only way to communicate with the outside world, he sent to the parents in Virginia State weekly e-mail, and on the personal website regularly updated image records in Iraq. January 26, the 20-Year-old Lin was killed in a raid. Lin's father Richard that e-mail is the son's property, like his clothes, high school writing books, once played football, should be transferred to his still on the human family.　　But Lin's e-mail service provider said the family's pain was understandable, but the company's first priority was to protect the privacy of the user and therefore declined to disclose any information about the email account. The encounter of U.S. Army Special Forces Smith is another example.　　Before his death on January 11, 2005, Smith recorded his life in his blog for three consecutive years, and he loved poetry writing, reflecting his experiences in Iraq, and expressing his love for life and music.　　Unfortunately, these two sites for a long time not logged in the account has automatic scrap rules, the two soldiers of the family before the password permission, their accounts and content has been automatically deleted. The "digital legacy" quietly sprang up in the UK by researchers at the University of London's Golden Smith College, working with a network company called Rackspace, a survey of 2000 British adults showed that about one-fourth of the people on the Internet have assets worth no less than 200 pounds, which may be in the form of video, Music, e-books and photos.　　By this reckoning, all Britons may have more than 2.3 billion pounds worth of property on the Internet. Kelly Hamol, a 27-year-old girl who lives in Hertfordshire, is a representative. According to British media reports, she believes that the personal digital property value of about 10,000 pounds, and has included them in their wills. So she talked about her digital possessions: "I have a lot of precious memories that exist online in digital photos, usually without a print version." Besides, I have a lot of valuable things on the internet, such as my music collection and the digital magazines I ordered. If something happens to me, I want to make sure my family and friends get the digital property. "There is demand there will be a market, lawyers as an important participant in the traditional will, has been eyeing the" digital heritage "may bring opportunities.　　Has begun to provide customers with services related to digital heritage. The Solution Services Web site leverages Internet technology to find a way to address the "digital heritage" and similar problemsLive website.　　The user name and password for some important network accounts are present in the encrypted protection space provided by the Web site, and the network account and password are sent to the designated "beneficiaries" once an accident occurs.　　The archives, located in San Francisco's "Internet Archives", have been collecting Web pages, multimedia documents and pictures since 1996, and users can consider donating their "digital heritage" to similar archives as research materials in the fields of sociology. The testator should consciously establish their own network account list, and on the basis of the account and its contents according to "Inheritance or forget" classification. Write the password of some important network account in the will, leave it to the lawyer to keep, if an accident happens, the lawyer would give the account password and the wish to the designated person together. However, some netizens believe that the traditional way to deal with digital property is somewhat outdated, is in the old way to deal with new problems. Share to: