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Jerry Brito

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jerrybritoJerry Brito is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University and director of its Technology Policy Program. His research interests include telecom and spectrum policy, government transparency, and intellectual property.

Johannes Bauer on economic incentives and cybersecurity

by Jerry Brito on February 8, 2010 Comments

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Johannes Bauer, Professor of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media at Michigan State University and director of Special Programs at the Quello Center for Telecommunication Management and Law, discusses economic incentives facing Internet users and providers in addressing cybersecurity risks. The discussion also turns to the differences between cybercrime and cyberwarfare and recent examples of cyberattacks.

Edmund J. Walsh and Andrew J. Tibbets on the benefits and risks of Open Source software

by Jerry Brito on February 1, 2010 Comments

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Edmund Walsh and Andrew Tibbetts on the legal risks of incorporating Open Source software into commercial products.

There’s no reason an NYT paywall won’t work

by Jerry Brito on January 22, 2010 Comments

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Contra the digerati, there’s no economic reason the NYT could not segment its customers and erect a paywall.

Publicly traded but closely held

by Jerry Brito on January 18, 2010 Comments

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Google’s recent China move is not about protecting its business interests, in fact quite the opposite. It possible because the founders have majority control of the company.

DC Circuit not buying FCC’s claimed authority

by Jerry Brito on January 11, 2010 Comments

At oral argument, the D.C. Circuit panel hearing the FCC v. Comcast case was skeptical of the FCC’s authority to regulate the internet as they have.

John Wonderlich on government transparency and accountability

by Jerry Brito on November 17, 2009 Comments

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John Wonderlich, the Policy Director at the Sunlight Foundation, discusses the government transparency movement. The discussion also turns to the work of the Sunlight Foundation and Lawrence Lessig’s recent article on “naked transparency.”

Why would Yahoo! delete Geocities?

by Jerry Brito on November 16, 2009 Comments

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Yahoo! recently deleted all the data from its discontinued Goecities service rather than keeping it backed up somewhere. In the process they erased much of the history of the early web.

Reminder: Coase’s FCC at 50 Event Tomorrow

by Jerry Brito on October 28, 2009 Comments

Join us tomorrow at 9 a.m. for the event “Ronald Coase’s The Federal Communications Commission at 50,”

Against faith in government

by Jerry Brito on October 26, 2009 Comments

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A libertarian critique of Lawrence Lessig’s argument the “naked transparency” that justifies public cynicism about politics.

Regulatory “buckets” are back

by Jerry Brito on October 23, 2009 Comments

In its proposed net neutrality rules, the FCC seeks to create a new regulatory classification for “managed services,” but such classification rarely works.