Rural Access Robbery
What’s to Blame: Patents or Poverty?
Pirates Plundering the U.S. Economy
23 Days 'til New Taxes?
The True Cost of Copyright Industry Piracy to the U.S. Economy
Using a well-established U.S. government model and the latest copyright piracy figures, this study concludes that, each year, copyright piracy from motion pictures, sound recordings, business and entertainment software and video games costs the U.S. economy $58.0 billion in total output, costs American workers 373,375 jobs and $16.3 billion in earnings, and costs federal, state, and local governments $2.6 billion in tax revenue.
The Law of the Sea Treaty: Turning the World's Resources Over to a Second United Nations
The Law of the Sea Treaty, rejected by President Ronald Reagan, is back before the U.S. Senate. The LOST turns unowned natural resources over to the UN; creates a byzantine regulatory structure for seabed mining; establishes international taxation without congressional approval; and transfers U.S. technology to Third World states. It also subjects American navigational rights to international arbitration.