No, this is not another blog post about the Oscars.  In case you missed it, this week the USTR released its “Out-Of Cycle Review of Notorious Markets.” This used to be published as part of the Special 301 Report which looks at IP violations by U.S. trading partners, but is now published separately. Basically, this is a sampling of some of the “Worst of the Worst” places for copyright infringement and counterfeiting. USTR describes the list as follows: “The Notorious Markets List identifies selected...

The Internet generates a lot of traffic. Cisco reports that this year global IP traffic on the Internet is expected to exceed 21,000 petabytes per month (a petabyte is about 1 million gigabytes) and the total volume is expected to increase by almost one-third every year. At the per-connection level, Cisco found that the average broadband connection generates almost 15 GB of Internet traffic per month. So what is all this traffic? And how much of this traffic is being used for legitimate content...

Last fall I wrote an article about Sen. Leahy’s proposed legislation—the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA)—that summarized the criticism of the bill and provided a rebuttal to those arguments. Since last year the issue of online piracy has not abated and the opposition to the legislation remains as heated as ever. Since COICA draws heavily on ideas proposed by ITIF in the report “Steal These Policies: Strategies for Reducing Digital Piracy,” I think it is appropriate to...