Stanford Center for Internet and Society

With a change in administration, this is a key moment in policymaking with respect to broadband in America. The market fundamentalists, whose liassez faire policy of the last eight years has led to the precipitous fall of the U.S. in broadband leadership, are desperate to expalin away the clear decline. The harder they try, however, the deeper the hole they dig.

Proposal to serve those without braodband available by using stimulus funding to deploy middle mile fiber and provision the first mile with cutting edge wireless broadband.

A revised version of the analysis of consumer and artist benefits from digital production and distribution of music.

Record oil comany profits redistribute wealth from consumers to stockholdres

An analysis of the benfits to Florida of adopting the California Clean Cars Emission Standards.

Evaluating the contribution of expanded drilling, Fuel Economy, Conservation and Alternatives in 2010-2030 period

A quick look at the winners from drilling in pristine areas.

Journal on Law and High Technology (2006) - The Political Economy of Collaborative Production in the Digital Information Age

Consumer group comments in the FCC's Broadband Practices Notice of Inquiry demonstrate the failure of the current reliance on a cozy, Telco-Cable duopoly to achieve the policy goal of a ubiquitous communications network "with adequate facilities at reasonable charge" in the broadband era.

Less than a decade after the advent of file sharing, sales figures indicate that the recording industry sold more singles than albums and unsigned artists sold more singles than record labels. Thus, the digital communications revolution has transformed the creation and distribution of music to the benefit of both consumers and artists.