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No. 125: "The Case against Literary (and Software) Patents," by Timothy B. Lee; August 2009
Past Issues
No. 124: "The Promise That Keeps on Breaking," by Jim Harper; April 2009
No. 123: "Government-Run Cyber Security? No, Thanks," by Jim Harper; March 2009
No. 122: "U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: FAIL," by Jim Harper; February 2009
No. 121: ""Clean Tech": Does Going Green Mean Going Red? ," by Jim Harper; December 2008
No. 120: "Scrap E-Verify," by Jim Harper; November 2008
No. 119: "The Lesson of the XM/Sirius Merger," by Jim Harper; August 2008
No. 118: "Bring Appellate Competition Back to Patent Law," by Timothy B. Lee; July 2008
No. 117: "Save the Orphan (Works)," by Timothy B. Lee; June 2008
No. 116: "The Future of News: A Golden Age for Free Speech?," by Steve Boriss; June 2008
No. 115: "Low-Power FM: Freedom Is Diversity," by James Plummer; May 2008
No. 114: "L-1: The Technology Company in Your Pocket," by Jim Harper; May 2008
No. 113: "The "EEV" of Destruction," by Jim Harper; March 2008
No. 112: "Beacon Lessons," by Timothy B. Lee; February 2008
No. 111: ""Free" (Filtered) Broadband?," by James Plummer; January 2008
No. 110: "Voter ID: A Tempest in a Teapot That Could Burn Us All," by Jim Harper; January 2008
No. 109: "Public Safety and Public Spectrum," by James Plummer; November 2007
No. 108: "The REAL ID Act: An Update," by Jim Harper; October 2007
No. 107: "The 700 MHz Spectrum: How About an 'Open' Auction?," by Jim Harper; July 2007
No. 106: "Google Should Stick to What It Knows Best," by Timothy B. Lee; July 2007
No. 105: "Why Libertarians Should Celebrate Free Software," by Timothy B. Lee; June 2007
No. 104: "Immigration Reform: REAL ID and a Federal 'No Work' List," by Jim Harper; June 2007
No. 103: "Wu on Wireless: A Simple Solution?," by Timothy B. Lee; June 2007
No. 102: "How Endangered Is Internet Radio?," by James Plummer; May 2007
No. 101: "Supreme Court Ruling Could Save Vonage," by Timothy B. Lee; May 2007
No. 100: "Fusion Centers: Leave 'Em to the States," by Jim Harper; March 2007
No. 99: "Data Retention: Costly Outsourced Surveillance," by James Plummer; January 2007
No. 98: "Broadcast Flag Burning," by Timothy B. Lee; May 2005
No. 97: "When Data Security Regulations Fail, There Is an Alternative," by Jim Harper; March 2005
No. 96: "Apple v. Free Speech?," by Timothy B. Lee; February 2005
No. 95: "The Regulator Who Loved Markets," by Adam D. Thierer; January 2005
No. 94: "Of Desperate Housewives and Desperate Regulators," by Adam D. Thierer; January 2005
No. 93: "Privacy Threats from a Banana Republic," by Jim Harper; November 2004
No. 92: "Copyright Enforcement Revisited," by Adam D. Thierer; November 2004
No. 91: "Twilight for Traditional Telecom Regulation?," by Adam D. Thierer; October 2004
No. 90: "Howard Stern and the Future of Media Censorship," by Adam D. Thierer; October 2004
No. 89: "Federal Spyware Legislation: Some Lessons from Antiquity," by Jim Harper; October 2004
No. 88: "The "Rathergate" Incident: Remembering Why Separation of Press and State Is Vital," by Adam D. Thierer; September 2004
No. 87: "Sen. McCain's Plan to Liberate the Broadcast Spectrum," by Adam D. Thierer; September 2004
No. 86: "Censoring Violence in Media," by Adam D. Thierer; August 2004
No. 85: "Media Ownership Regulation Redux: A Reality Check," by Adam D. Thierer; June 2004
No. 84: "Surrogate-Parent Sam," by Adam D. Thierer; June 2004
No. 83: "Shed No Tears for AT&T," by Adam D. Thierer; June 2004
No. 82: "Negotiate, Not Litigate," by James L. Gatusso, Randolph J. May and Adam D. Thierer; June 2004
No. 81: "Is the Bush Administration Finally Getting Serious about Broadband Policy?," by Adam D. Thierer; April 2004
No. 80: "Return of the (Un)Fairness Doctrine: The Media Ownership Reform Act,," by Adam D. Thierer; April 2004
No. 79: "Media Ownership Madness and the Third Person Effect Hypothesis," by Adam D. Thierer; April 2004
No. 78: "Obscenity Crackdown—What Will the Next Step Be?," by Eugene Volokh; April 2004
No. 77: "Should Government Censor Speech on Cable and Satellite TV?," by Adam D. Thierer; March 2004
No. 76: "The EU Microsoft Ruling: A Welfare State for Aggrieved Market Losers," by Robert A. Levy; March 2004
No. 75: "On Drawing Lines in Copyright Law," by Adam D. Thierer; March 2004
No. 74: "An Open Letter to Pro-Regulation Conservatives," by Adam D. Thierer; February 2004
No. 73: "The Plot to Stop the Internet Telephone Revolution," by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. and Adam D. Thierer; February 2004
No. 72: "Why Prohibitions on Internet Gambling Won't Work," by Koleman Strumpf; January 2004
No. 71: "All Politics is Local: How Broadcasters Want to Silence Satellite Radio," by Radley Balko; January 2004
No. 70: "Howard Dean's Plan for the Internet: Collectivism In, Property Rights Out," by Adam D. Thierer; January 2004
No. 69: "Everybody Wants to Rule the Web," by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. and Adam D. Thierer; December 2003
No. 68: "Return of the 'Seven Dirty Words' Indecency Standard?," by Adam D. Thierer; December 2003
No. 67: "DTV Mandate Tally Could Grow Again With Upcoming Multicasting Decision," by Adam D. Thierer; December 2003
No. 66: "Number Portability Decision Adds to Wireline Telecom Sector's Perfect Storm," by Adam D. Thierer; November 2003
No. 65: "Google as a Public Utility? No Results in This Search for Monopoly," by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. and Adam D. Thierer; November 2003
No. 64: "The Broadcast Flag Decision: The FCC Bends Over Backward to Protect Over-the-Air Television and the HDTV Transition," by Adam D. Thierer; November 2003
No. 63: "GAO's Cable Report Smacks Down A La Carte Regulation," by Adam D. Thierer; October 2003
No. 62: "Don't Ban Technology to Solve Copyright Problems," by Doug Bandow; October 2003
No. 61: "The Coming Internet Tax Quid Pro Quo?," by Veronique de Rugy and Adam D. Thierer; October 2003
No. 60: "The Do-Not-Call Solution: Turn the Ringer Off," by Robert A. Levy; October 2003
No. 59: "European Politicians Want to Tax U.S Companies," by Veronique de Rugy; September 2003
No. 58: "Was the UNE Triennial Review Worth the Wait? Part II: The Substance," by Adam D. Thierer; September 2003
No. 57: "Was the UNE Triennial Review Worth the Wait? Part 1: The Process," by Adam D. Thierer; August 2003
No. 56: "The Day the Music Died," by Stan Liebowitz; August 2003
No. 55: "The Subsidized Soapbox: Senator McCain's Free Airtime for Politicians Bill," by John Samples and Adam D. Thierer; August 2003
No. 54: "What Media Monopolies?," by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. and Adam D. Thierer; July 2003
No. 53: "Cable Rates and Consumer Value," by Adam D. Thierer; July 2003
No. 52: "Regulating Video Games: Must Government Mind Our Children?," by Adam D. Thierer; June 2003
No. 51: "The Media Ownership Debate: Who Are the Real Media Masters?," by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. and Adam D. Thierer; June 2003
No. 50: "Safeguarding Access to Internet Content: Government or Market?," by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. and Adam D. Thierer; April 2003
No. 49: "Will "States' Rights" Derail Telecom Deregulation?," by Adam D. Thierer; March 2003
No. 48: "UNE-P and the Future of Telecom 'Competition'," by Adam D. Thierer; February 2003
No. 47: "Entitled to Entertainment? The Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act," by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. and Adam D. Thierer; January 2003
No. 46: "Internet Libel Ruling: Talk About a Kangaroo Court," by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. and Adam D. Thierer; December 2002
No. 45: "The Pentagon's Total Information Awareness Project: Americans Under the Microscope?," by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr.; November 2002
No. 44: "Three Cheers for the FCC Spectrum Task Force Report," by Adam D. Thierer; November 2002
No. 43: "The Bush Administration's Broadband Policy Record," by Adam D. Thierer; November 2002
No. 42: "Microsoft: The States' Last Hurrah," by Robert A. Levy; November 2002
No. 41: "EchoStar-DirecTV Merger Critics Propose Infrastructure Socialism in Outer Space," by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. and Adam D. Thierer; October 2002
No. 40: "How Far Can Hollywood Go to Protect Copyrights?," by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. and Adam D. Thierer; September 2002
No. 39: "The HDTV Fiasco Gets Worse: TV Set and Cable Mandates On the Way," by Adam D. Thierer; August 2002
No. 38: "190 Internet Censors? Rising Global Threats to Online Speech," by Adam D. Thierer; July 2002
No. 37: "Implications of the Supreme Court's Verizon v. FCC Decision," by Adam D. Thierer; May 2002
No. 36: "Conflict of Broadband Visions: Breaux-Nickles vs. Hollings," by Adam D. Thierer; May 2002
No. 35: "Just Don't Do It: The Digital Opportunities Investment Trust (DO IT) Fund," by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. and Adam D. Thierer; May 2002
No. 34: "How Four FCC Rulemakings Could Finally Break the Broadband Logjam," by Adam D. Thierer; March 2002
No. 33: "Digital Divide Update: The Rhetoric Finally Matches the Reality," by Lucas Mast and Adam D. Thierer; February 2002
No. 32: "Forced Access Follies Continue: The Case of Special Access Services," by Adam D. Thierer; January 2002
No. 31: "Biometrics: Hold On, Chicken Little," by Lucas Mast; January 2002
No. 30: "Liquor Ads on TV: Is Federal Regulation Brewing?," by Adam D. Thierer; December 2001
No. 29: "The Tauzin-Dingell Bill and the National Academy of Sciences Broadband Study: Calls for Broadband Freedom,," by Adam D. Thierer; December 2001
No. 28: "The EchoStar-DirecTV Merger: Antitrust Folly Reaches Outer Space," by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. and Adam D. Thierer; December 2001
No. 27: "Why "Fair" Competition Fails in the Telephone Industry: The Case of Wavelength Services," by Lawrence Gasman; November 2001
No. 26: "The Digital TV Transition: The Fairy Tale Continues," by Adam D. Thierer; November 2001
No. 25: "Closing the Net Tax Debate (Part 3): Taxing Digital Downloads," by Aaron Lukas; October 2001
No. 24: "Anonymity in America: Does National Security Preclude It?," by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. and Adam D. Thierer; October 2001
No. 23: "Closing the Net Tax Debate (Part 2): Identifying the Real Sales Tax Drain," by Adam D. Thierer; October 2001
No. 22: "Closing the Net Tax Debate (Part 1): The Myth of the Level Playing Field," by Aaron Lukas; October 2001
No. 21: "National ID Cards: New Technologies, Same Bad Idea," by Adam D. Thierer; September 2001
No. 20: "Cyber-Surveillance in the Wake of 9/11," by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. and Adam D. Thierer; September 2001
No. 19: "Trespass in Cyberspace: Whose Ether Is It Anyway?," by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr.; September 2001
No. 18: "Is the Internet Bad for Democracy?," by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr.; August 2001
No. 17: "Structural Separation of the Bells - An Idea Whose Time Has Passed," by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. and Adam D. Thierer; August 2001
No. 16: "Musical Mandates: Must the Pop Music Industry Submit to Compulsory Licensing?," by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr.; August 2001
No. 15: "The Feds Want To Write Your Software," by Dominick T. Armentano; August 2001
No. 14: "Broadband Tax Credits: The High-Tech Pork Barrel Begins," by Adam D. Thierer; July 2001
No. 13: "The Microsoft Decision - Part 2 of 2: Prospects for the Company, Implications for Antitrust,," by Robert A. Levy; July 2001
No. 12: "The Microsoft Decision - Part 1 of 2: The Appeal Ends, The Trial Resumes,," by Robert A. Levy; July 2001
No. 11: "New Wind in the Sails of the Censorship Crusade?," by Adam D. Thierer; July 2001
No. 10: "When Rights Collide: Principles to Guide the Intellectual Property Debate," by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. and Adam D. Thierer; June 2001
No. 9: "Two Bizarre and Backward Ideas for Broadband Deployment," by Adam D. Thierer; May 2001
No. 8: "Beware of the Cellular Keystone Cops," by Adam D. Thierer; May 2001
No. 7: "Avoiding a Net Tax Cartel Catastrophe," by Aaron Lukas and Adam D. Thierer; May 2001
No. 6: "Will Congress Ever Deregulate Broadband?," by Adam D. Thierer; May 2001
No. 5: "Maintaining Order on the Internet," by Lucas Mast; April 2001
No. 4: "Solving America's Spectrum Crisis,," by Adam D. Thierer; April 2001
No. 3: "One Internet Is Not Enough," by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr.; April 2001
No. 2: "The "Gore Tax" Finds a Friend: George W. Bush," by Adam D. Thierer; April 2001
No. 1: "The Libertarian Vision for Telecom and High-Technology," by Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. and Adam D. Thierer; April 2001
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