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When the latest Intel or AMD GigaWOW computer chip is introduced, it is too expensive for all but the most demanding customers.

The Institute for Policy Innovation’s newest report, “The True Cost of Copyright Industry Piracy to the U.

It was the best of policies, it was the worst of policies.

This week is the annual General Assembly of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), which was set up to administer the 1883 Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property and the 1883 Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works.

In a few weeks the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will hold a town hall meeting to examine the public policy issues involved in “online behavioral advertising.

For the fourth time in nine years Congress is again struggling with whether taxes that discriminate against electronic commerce should be allowed.

There has been some complaining lately about the business models of the wireless companies—mostly driven by those who want to own an Apple iPhone, but who don’t want to be tied to AT&T as a service provider.

Reed Hundt never got around to smothering the wireless industry with regulations while he was chairman of the FCC, and the wireless industry thrived as a result.

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.