by wellerbe | Apr 3, 2011 | Commentary, Legislation/Regulations |
The ongoing nuclear crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has brought to mind nuclear disasters from the past, specifically, the accidents at Chernobyl in 1986 and Three Mile Island in 1979. While experts will work in the coming years to determine...
by rotchadl | Apr 3, 2011 | Commentary |
Last week’s announcement that AT&T is buying T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion should raise serious antitrust concerns with regulators analyzing the deal under the horizontal merger guidelines of the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission....
by Daniel Prieve | Mar 20, 2011 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News |
On March 15th, the White House announced that it planned to vigorously combat copyright infringement. An interesting part of this announcement was the White House’s proposal to step up efforts to combat so-called “illegal” video and audio streams....
by Travis Rimando | Mar 3, 2011 | Commentary |
The Electronic Frontier Foundation reported last week that over 40,000 unnamed “John Doe” defendants in California, Texas, Washington D.C., and West Virginia have been “effectively dismissed” in the P2P file-sharing lawsuits against them. This...
by beckersc | Mar 3, 2011 | Commentary |
In the midst of worldwide change, there is a recurring theme: The role of the Internet. What has happened lately? In Egypt, as protests began in late January, the government responded by shutting down the internet (through various means), hoping to quell the voice of...
by ghans | Feb 16, 2011 | Commentary |
This American Life, the popular public radio show hosted by Ira Glass, devoted its entire hour this past weekend to the cracking the Coca-Cola formula, perhaps the most famous trade secret in the world. Long rumored to contain cocaine, Ira Glass and company have...
