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 [...]
Introduction Good morning, Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee. I am Jonathan Zuck, President of the Association for Competitive Technology, or ACT. On behalf of our member companies, it is my sincere honor to testify before this committee today. As a professional software developer and technology educator, I am [...]
November 28, 2001 Members of the House of Representatives: As high technology executives, we support the bipartisan Trade Promotion Authority bill, H.R. 3005, and ask that you act quickly to pass it before Congress adjourns. This legislation addresses several key issues that are important to the tech industry, especially for [...]