EconTech

Well, basically he does. With the way textbook prices are these days, it is hard to disagree. However, I have a few comments on his recommendation for DjVu over CHM over PDF.
Let’s discuss CHM for a moment. All it is is a compilation of HTML data (images and html text) into a proprietary, hard to [...]

You may be familiar with the JPE paper on file sharing published about a year ago. For various reasons, it has garnered quite a bit of controversy and criticism, not the least of which comes from Stan Liebowitz. Even as someone who has railed against the idiocracy that is the major media producers, I have [...]

Internal MediaDefender e-mails leaked on BitTorrent reveal that the peer-to-peer poisoning company was providing information to the government as part of a secret project. The e-mails also provide new insight into the company’s MiiVi scandal.
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FsG writes “Over the past few weeks, more and more Comcast users have reported that their BitTorrent traffic is severely throttled and they are totally unable to seed. Comcast doesn’t seem to discriminate between legitimate and infringing torrent traffic, and most of the BitTorrent encryption techniques in use today aren’t helping. If more ISPs adopt [...]