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Does Online Piracy Hurt The Entertainment Industry?

January 21, 2012Erik Kain

Julian Sanchez has an excellent piece in Ars Technica which takes a look at the claim that content creators are being discouraged from creative pursuits due to online piracy – a claim that has fueled the recently stalled anti-piracy legislation in congress. Whether SOPA and PIPA would have actually worked is an open question, but […]

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Ars Technica, Box Office Mojo, Business, byline=E.D. Kain, congress, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Harvard Business School, Julian Sanchez, Media, Media & Entertainment, Nielsen SoundScan, Online Piracy, PIPA, Piracy, Protect IP Act, SOPA, Stop Online Piracy Act, Tech, Tech politics, United States, Wal-Mart

PIPA Halted In The Senate But It’s Still Too Soon To Celebrate

January 20, 2012Erik Kain

An internet blackout and protests online and in person helped grind anti-piracy legislation to a halt in congress. But the fight isn’t over yet. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) called off a vote on the controversial Protect IP Act (PIPA) after Wednesday’s internet blackout and statements from the president indicating that more discussion was […]

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Ars Technica, Ben Cardin, byline=E.D. Kain, Darrell Issa, Google, Harry Reid, Lamar Smith, OPEN Act, PIPA, Protect IP Act, Ron Wyden, SOPA, Stop Online Piracy Act, Tech, White House, Wikipedia

America Needs 1Gbps Internet in Every Home

November 22, 2011Erik Kain

You can pay $40 a month for 1.5Mbps “high-speed” internet from a provider like or, if you’re lucky, you can be part of Sonic.net’s 700-home roll-out of fiber lines that pump internet into your home 600 times that fast for less than twice the cost. At $69.99 the plan is less than a third of […]

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Ars Technica, Broadband, Business, byline=E.D. Kain, Comcast, Dane Jasper, Fiberoptics, Innovation & Science, Internet service provider, Kansas, Nate Anderson, Sonic.net, Tech, United States

Killing the Courier to Save Windows 8

November 3, 2011Erik Kain

CNET and Ars Technica both have interesting pieces on the silent death of Microsoft’s dual-screen tablet, the Courier. (CNET’s is a two part series that you can read here and here.) To make a long story short, the 130 person team working on the Courier was disbanded when the product was scrapped by Microsoft founder […]

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Ars Technica, Bill Gates, BlackBerry PlayBook, byline=E.D. Kain, Courier, Google, IPad, iPhone, Microsoft, Mobile, Mobile Technology, Tech, Windows 8

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