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Research conducted by a Washington, DC-based research institute concludes that prohibitions against usage-based pricing for broadband forces consumers to purchase services they do not use. The Phoenix Center Policy Perspective, “A Most Egregious Act? The Impact on Consumers of Usage-Based Pricing,” was released May 23, 2012.
Phoenix Center Chief Economist Dr. George Ford, author of the study, refutes arguments that usage-based pricing for voice, video, and texting services is antithetical to...
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Sweden’s Lund University reports a 40 percent rise in the number of 15- to 25-year-olds using virtual private networks for free—and in good part illegal—sharing of music and movies since 2009. The study likely will prompt government anti-piracy crackdowns on VPNs used to access the Swedish download site The Pirate Bay.
Copyright enforcement against The Pirate Bay, which hosts links to mostly pirated free music and videos, have been enforced across Europe and are imminent in Great Britain. In...
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San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit is defending the system’s order to shutdown cell-phone service shutdown last August. BART filed its defense with the Federal Communications Commission on April 30.
BART’s actions have fueled a considerable amount of negative reaction. Digital rights groups have spoken out against government agencies assuming the ability to shut down wireless coverage as a matter of policy.
“BART is a government agency, and the First Amendment prevents the government from...
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