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Is Copyright Enforcement Censorship?

Harvard Business Review

This option has rightsholders spending the majority of the resources dedicated to detecting and removing pirated material from sites and struggling to find an acceptable new business model that can compete with free. But these websites are not likely to hand over the list of pirates to Wayne's label, for good reason.

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The EU Privacy Ruling Won’t Hurt Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The ECJ ruling has implications for all multinational businesses that handle European data, and it dilutes the “proportionality test,” where businesses claim that the economic effort of deleting personally identifiable data is damaging to their business models. We want to participate in U.S.

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The Great Firewall of America

Harvard Business Review

If they don't, they lose their safe harbor provisions. Shut it down every time it doesn't fit someone's business model? To prop up the business model of an industry in the midst of disruption. That is the equivalent of making phone carriers liable for conversations that are being made on their phone lines.

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The Commoditization of Scale

Harvard Business Review

In other words, the advantages of size gave some companies a bit of safe harbor. In the worst cases, it only takes months to move from profitable differentiation to commodity competition. Scale economics has been one of the last bastions from the competitive storm.

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?Numbers Show Apple Shareholders Have Already Gotten Plenty

Harvard Business Review

Here’s how the first two work: DOMRs: Apple repurchases stock on the open market on strategically chosen dates under SEC Rule 10b-18, presumably in amounts up to its daily “safe harbor” limit, currently $1.5 What, then, should the world’s richest company do with all those profits?