TechBytes

What’s the harm of a little college fun? All-night cross-country drives for Spring Break, campus pranks, Saturdays spent dressed in college garb cheering on the team, and rampant theft of music via illegal downloading…where’s the harm? Few seem to stop and consider the moral dimension of illegally downloading (stealing) music and often rationalize their behavior believing that “no one gets hurt.

On a warm Sunday afternoon you will find students, pedestrians and tourists crowding M Street in Georgetown, just blocks from the White House and Capitol Hill.

Markets are almost always the best way to deal with economic problems, including the problem of not wanting to go out tonight to watch the Dallas Cowboys play their first preseason football game in 100+ degree heat.

Several years ago, the federal government decided that analog television signals were taking up too much valuable spectrum, so the feds decided to force TV broadcasters to move their signals to digital by February 17, 2009.

Online businesses (and these days, whose business isn’t online?) have to deal with a multitude of overlapping and competing e-marketing regulations, including CAN-SPAM, COPPA, the Lanham Act, state child e-mail privacy laws, adware regulations, FTC and FCC enforcements and advisories, and all of the relevant international laws.

Seventy-three years ago a system of subsidies called “separations and settlements” was created to move the U.

Yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission (FCC) issued a report on broadband competition, finding that there is no need at this point for new regulations—including so called “network neutrality” regulations—on broadband networks.

The return of Congress to Democrat control may finally bring Internet taxes to the U.

Today the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and lawmakers announced the “Family Choice Act of 2007,” legislation which should be more aptly named the “Nanny State Micromanages the Video Industry Act.

More than 20 years ago Tipper Gore, the wife of then-Senator Al Gore (D-TN), initiated an educational effort.