Anmerkungen:
In: Berin Szoka and Adam Marcus, Editors, The Next Digital Decade: Essays on the Future of the Internet (TechFreedom 2010)
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Beschreibung:
Information in digital form transforms from a rivalrous to a non-rivalrous good, with profoundly different and counter-intuitive economic properties. This essay reviews five key features of digital goods: renewability, universality, magnetism, friction-free transfer, and vulnerability. Understanding these properties informs enlightened policy goals on everything from copyrights to privacy to identify theft and other information crimes