Honorable Edolphus Towns, Ranking Member Energy and Commerce Committee Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection Subcommittee The Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) submits the following views on H.R. 4678. ACT represents over 3,000 information technology (IT) companies and professionals, all of whom care deeply about protecting privacy. We appreciate the Subcommittee's [...]
The Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) submits the following comments on S.2201. Representing mostly small and mid-sized companies, ACT is the industry's strongest voice when it comes to preserving competition and innovation in the high-tech sector. ACT member companies include software developers, content providers, and IT consulting firms that care [...]
Executive Summary This study estimates the costs of various aspects of proposed online privacy legislation. Using what I believe to be fairly conservative assumptions, I find that these costs easily could be in the billions, if not tens of billions of dollars. This fact alone suggests that proposed regulations that [...]
Spectrum Allocation Reform To "Wire" American Consumers By "Unwiring" Them "Silent Cal Coolidge" policy silenced new communications products and services. Parsing of the airwaves began in 1927 with the establishment of the precursor to the FCC, the Federal Radio Commission. This agency was given the authority to dole out spectrum [...]
Digital Rights Management (DRM): Whose rights are being managed? (revisited) Unstoppable market forces will drive digital rights management. Consumers worldwide are buying more blank CDs and less recorded music, pushing blank CD sales up 40 percent in 2002 while recorded music sales fell 16 percent. That's an unmistakable sign that [...]