Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
I’ve got a new article up at Reason about a disingenuous argument that’s often heard in copyright debates: that those who defend the traditional scope of copyright (including principles such as fair use and limited terms) are really just opponents of intellectual property who want to (as Jame DeLong put it a couple of months [...]
The FCC today unanimously approved SBC’s acquisition of AT&T as well as Verizon’s purchase of MCI, ending a federal approval process that began early this year. For these mergers to take effect, now all that is needed is approval by a few remaining state regulators. Symbolically, the mergers revolutionize the telecom industry–ending for all intents [...]
CEI will be hosting a lunch event on the Hill this Friday at noon. The focus will be on how we should be thinking about telecom reform in evolutionary terms, of phasing-out current law while not adding new laws to cover new technologies. I’ll be speaking and so will fellow TLF member James Gattuso, Randy [...]
[Cross-posted from the PFF blog] As Ray noted in his essay last week on Clearwire and VoIP blocking, I have long argued that broadband service providers (BSPs) will eventually will end up price differentiating based on bandwidth usage, in part because of the futility of differentiating based on service bundling or technological applications / usage. [...]
The market research firm In-Stat reports that 9.4 percent of the nation’s 193 million wireless subscribers have already made their mobile phone their primary phone and the firm expects that percentage to grow to 23 to 37 percent by 2009. Hopefully our wireline-obsessed policymakers in Washington will read this report and realize that their seemingly [...]
This week, I’m debating some folks on data security regulation at CNET News. com. Could be interesting and informative. So far, the debate has transmogrified, at the hand of News.com’s editors, from data security regulation into “IDENTITY CRISIS” and my first post was provocatively (mis-)named “Why should people trust the industry?” – a question that [...]
Apparently, in PFF land a “satire” is when you blatantly misrepresent your subject and then heap scorn on the straw man you’ve created. The article strongly implies that “Sal” would watch the movies and listen to the music she copies, and that the indexing service would just be a gimmick to excuse the copying. But [...]
Ever wonder why the ‘bloggers on Tech Liberation Front feel the way they do? This might give you some idea. Things are getting better all the time and technology is integral to making that true. So, while we often rant here about the dumb people doing dumb things to hinder progress, let’s take a moment [...]
OK, this has nothing to do with technology policy, but knowing the love some of my fellow TLF bloggers have for the game of soccer, every once and awhile I like to go off on a little rant about this dreadful sport that is currently infecting America. To explain why I hate soccer so much, [...]
May 24, 2012
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