IDCs recently released study, Worldwide Bandwidth End-User Forecast and Analysis, 2003-2007: More is Still Not Enough ($$$), predicts that within five years, Internet traffic generated by end-users will double, from “180 petabits per day in 2002 to 5,175 petabits per day by the end of 2007.” The press release uses an interesting analogy to illustrate… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: March 2003
Digital Rights Management and Business Models
From the Digital Rights Management Conference, February 27- March 1, 2003, sponsored by the The Berkeley Center for Law and Technology: Lon Sobel, DRM as an Enabler of Business Models: ISPs as Digital Retailers, 18 Berkeley Tech. L.J. xx (forthcoming 2003) (Word, PDF, HTML). See also this New York Times article, Pondering Value of Copyright… Continue Reading
Gun Database Causes Law Enforcement Controversy
The San Francisco Chronicle reported on February 28 that Attorney General Ashcroft has threatened to prosecute California law enforcement officials who continue to access three government databases, the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), the National Crime Information Center and the Interstate Identification Index, to track illegal gun owners. Continue Reading
Ambitious New Alexandria Library
From the New York Times, Online Library Wants It All, Every Book: “The directors of the new Alexandria Library, which christened a steel and glass structure with 250,000 books in October, have joined forces with an American artist and software engineers in an ambitious effort to make virtually all of the world’s books available at… Continue Reading
