Julian Sanchez has posted to the Cato Institute blog an insightful analysis of the copyright industry’s arguments for Internet censorship.
Sanchez concludes:
It is not, however, a good reason to spend $47 million in taxpayer dollars—plus untold millions more in ISP compliance costs—turning the Justice Department into a pro bono litigation service for Hollywood in hopes of generating a jobs and a revenue bonanza for the U.S. economy. Any “research” suggesting we can expect that kind of result from Internet censorship is a fiction more fanciful than singing chipmunks.
Read the whole article for yourself.
