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Do the Luddites Ever Win?
September/October 2010 (vol. 8 no. 5)
pp. 79-82
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Michael Lesk, "Do the Luddites Ever Win?," IEEE Security & Privacy, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 79-82, September/October, 2010.
 
 
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author = {Michael Lesk},
title = {Do the Luddites Ever Win?},
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publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
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Michael Lesk, Rutgers University
Advocates for traditional newspapers have recently been calling for a tax on Internet activities that would support paper-based journalism. Concerns about new technologies destroying the old aren't new, but do the "luddites" ever win?

1. "Potential Policy Recommendations to Support the Reinvention of Journalism," US Federal Trade Commission staff discussion draft, 2010; www.ftc.gov/opp/workshops/news/jun15/docs new-staff-discussion.pdf.
2. The Photographic Journal, 16 Feb. 1863, p. 235.
3. D. Ormrod, "Art and Its Markets," Economic History Rev., vol. 52, 1999, pp. 554–551.
4. N. Perrin, Giving Up the Gun, David R. Godine, 1988.

Index Terms:
Internet tax, journalism, technology economics, license fees
Citation:
Michael Lesk, "Do the Luddites Ever Win?," IEEE Security & Privacy, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 79-82, Sept.-Oct. 2010, doi:10.1109/MSP.2010.148
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