The goal of this paper is to analyze the behavior of digital music consumers on the Internet. Using clickstream data on … the legal purchases of digital music. Our results suggest that Internet users do not view illegal downloading as a …

Conventional wisdom dictates that the Internet is a medium in which federalism is destined to fail. By virtue of its … decentralized design, the Internet naturally resists regulation by a diverse set of government actors. Indeed, courts have reasoned … that federalism on the Internet is either technologically impossible or constitutionally prohibited. The emergence of …

We empirically investigate the effect of the Internet on racial hate crimes in the United States from the period 2001 … Internet's impact on these hate crimes is not uniform in that the positive effect is stronger in areas with higher levels of … significant in areas with lower levels of racism. We analyze in depth whether Internet access will enhance hate group operations …

scalability. Writing about the growth and governance of the Internet, David Post observed that "scaling problems - the problems … solve." Both the Internet’s designers and the designers of P2P networks solved difficult problems of scale in their effort …