Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
My colleague Wayne Crews has a new paper out on cybersecurity. He outlines why we need to let the insurance market develop for software risks, and that government mandates would hurt this development. He says: Contractually driven approaches that treat liability as an evolving relationship should prevail over regulatory approaches that mandate liability, or at [...]
Why are so many media companies breaking up or shedding assets? Well, the answer certainly has something to do with stock price. As this nice piece in yesterday’s (U.K.) Telegraph noted, Viacom alone has lost 36% of its value over the past five years. “We do not control the price of the stock,” says Viacom [...]
Media guru Ben Compaine has posted an important new essay on his site entitled: “Peercasting as the New Western Frontier.” Ben argues that the Internet and new media are creating the equivalent of a new Western frontier for the expansion of ideas and creativity. Here’s how he puts it: “The expansive western frontier offered anyone [...]
When I saw this article yesterday about agents from DHS shutting down a BitTorrent site, I thought that there’s no way anyone could be suggesting that copyright infringement and terrorism are related. Turns out, that’s exactly what some folks in law enforcement think.
Fun Fact of the Day… The three major blog tracking sites, Technorati, BlogPulse, and PubSub are now all reporting that they are monitoring over ten million blogs. We live in amazing times where 10 million people have become their own broadcast station. And yet, as I noted in a recent post, there remains a crowd [...]
As they say, the only difference between men and boys is the cost of their toys. For U.S. senators they can be even more costly. National Journal reports that, in a speech yesterday, Sen. Stevens remarked that he was “toying with the idea” of requiring analog TV manufacturers to sell digital converter boxes with their [...]
I want to draw everyone’s attention to an amazing speech on the marvels of the modern Information Age by Stephen T. Gray, managing publisher of The Christian Science Monitor. Speaking to the graduating seniors of Michigan-based Adrian College, Gray argues that, compared to past generations, today’s youngsters are blessed to live in a world of [...]
There’s a nasty spat taking place between broadcast giants Paxson and NBC Universal over the PAX television network. Back in the late 1990s, NBC invested over $400 million in PAX to help the new network grow. As part of the deal, Paxson and NBC struck a complicated Joint Sales Agreement (JSA) that imposed responsibilities on [...]
February 13, 2012
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