Too Much Cash, Too Little Innovation: Tech giants are mostly returning money to investors or doing M&A deals , says a headline in the July 18 BusinessWeek . Hmm. Could part of the problem be Hollywood lawyers’ war on the Net , which, by increasing the litigation threat, makes P2P and other innovative technologies more risky?
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David Rothman is the founder and publisher of the TeleRead e-book site and cofounder of LibraryCity.org. He is also author of The Solomon Scandals novel and six tech-related books on topics ranging from the Internet to laptops. Passionate on digital divide issues, he is now pushing for the
creation of a national digital library endowment .