Apprendre à dessiner. Voyages. Calypsauvage. Economie. SOPA, Internet regulation, and the economics of piracy. Earlier this month, I detailed at some length why claims about the purported economic harms of piracy, offered by supporters of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and PROTECT-IP Act (PIPA), ought to be treated with much more skepticism than they generally get from journalists and policymakers.
My own view is that this ought to be rather secondary to the policy discussion: SOPA and PIPA would be ineffective mechanisms for addressing the problem, and a terrible idea for many other reasons, even if the numbers were exactly right. No matter how bad last season's crops were, witch burnings are a poor policy response.
Fortunately, legislators finally seem to be cottoning on to this: SOPA now appears to be on ice for the time being, and PIPA's own sponsors are having second thoughts about mucking with the Internet's Domain Name System. La Grèce sonne le glas de l'Euro(pe) ?
Divertissement. 787642_manifestation-indignes-wall-street-new-york-etats-unis. Faire des économies au quotidien. Phytothérapie et remèdes naturels. Muzik. Pratique. Emiliem. Ben&Fakto. Londres. Entreprenership. Tristan. File, Political Analysis, Espionage, Terrorism, Security. Tendances web 2012. Économie. Mai 2012 Election présidentielle France.