Feb 12,2006
Music wants to be free
Just like news and opinion is free on the Internet today, so will new music be tomorrow.
Jan 15,2006
The best telecom reform is no reform
A new telecom bill would probably make things worse than they already are. For supporters of free markets, the best telecom bill is probably no telecom bill.
Dec 18,2005
Eight buns, eight wieners, eight channels
If it's absurd to require newspapers to sell their news, sports, and business sections separately so that consumers can get just what they want, how is forcing cable TV to...
Nov 27,2005
An analog armageddon?
Hollywood movies are replete with bad guys nefariously plotting to control the world, but these days, music and movie industry associations are looking awfully like power-hungry villains themselves as they...
Nov 20,2005
Sony Music’s spyware
Security researchers recently discovered that digital rights management (DRM) software bundled with some of Sony BMG CDs will, among other things, send information about the user's listening habits back to...
Nov 06,2005
Internet tug-o-war
In the battle over control of the Internet, it's not that the U.S. government manages the Internet better than other countries would, it's that it barely manages the Internet at...