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Piracy
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Budgets/Taxes
The Anti-Property Mindset The Internet Has Helped Foster – And Expand
by Seton Motley September 14, 2018The Internet is almost undoubtedly the most expansive, impressive creation in the history of a humanity creating things.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
AllVid Deja-Vu: Google-YouTube’s Forcing Video to be Open to Piracy Again
by Scott Cleland April 15, 2016Google’s puppeteering of FCC-sponsored piracy in the FCC AllVid set-top box proposal is not the first time Google has anticompetitively used piracy promotion to gain an anticompetitive market advantage for YouTube’s monopsony power — i.e. its market power from being the only repository in the world where one can access a copy of most every video created whether it is legal or pirated, and where Google often promotes pirated videos near the top of its search results.