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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.

“Piracy” of recorded music costs the U.S. sound recording industries billions of dollars in lost revenue and profits. These losses, however, represent only a fraction of the impact of recorded music piracy on the U.S. economy as a whole. Combining the latest data on worldwide piracy of recorded music with multipliers from a well established U.S. government model, this study concludes that recorded music piracy costs American workers significant losses in jobs and earnings, and governments substantial lost tax revenue.

“Piracy” of recorded music costs the U.S. sound recording industries billions of dollars in lost revenue and profits. These losses, however, represent only a fraction of the impact of recorded music piracy on the U.S. economy as a whole. Combining the latest data on worldwide piracy of recorded music with multipliers from a well established U.S. government model, this study concludes that recorded music piracy costs American workers significant losses in jobs and earnings, and governments substantial lost tax revenue.

Take me out to the ballgame, Take me out to the crowd.

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.

The conservative movement has been adrift for the past several years, in part because it was closely tied to Republicans who claimed to embrace conservative principles about limited government, lower taxes and spending, increased choice in education and health care, and on several other points.

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.

Make no mistake about it, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) bills that recently passed both the U.

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.

Newsweek columnist Robert Samuelson this week used his column to assail both politicians and think tanks for avoiding dealing with the reality of the coming entitlement Armageddon.