The Progress & Freedom Foundation serves to educate Congress, policymakers and the public on policy issues relating to the digital revolution.  PFF regularly receives mention in national news outlets, wire services and trade publications.  A sampling is provided below.

This Month:

• "The Space Frontier Foundation - Formation of National Coalition for Cheap & Reliable Access to Space," Space Fellowship News, July 16, 2008
  "Berin Szoka, Visiting Fellow at the Progress & Freedom Foundation (PFF), said: 'For fifteen years, PFF has promoted free market public policies related to technology and innovation and space policy is a natural extension of this mission. I am proud to join in developing a new policy paradigm for the commercial space revolution. Only a revolution in the cost of space access will unleash the full potential of private enterprise in space and make it possible to tap the vast economic potential of the solar system, thereby sustaining our declared national policy of extending human presence across the solar system.'"
• "DCIA Offers Best Practices for Inadvertent File-Sharing," Washington Internet Daily, July 15, 2008
  "The best practices are 'deja vu all over again,' the Progress and Freedom Foundation's Tom Sydnor told us. He authored an influential study of inadvertent file sharing as a Patent and Trademark Office adviser. The earlier P2P industry group, P2P United, devised requirements for membership when accidental sharing came to light around 2002, he said: 'Lo and behold, here we have a completely voluntary code of conduct that's supposedly going to fix the problem.'"
  "By focusing on user-originated files, the P2P industry is suggesting that copyright infringement is "not really the kind of thing you should worry about," Sydnor said. 'That makes the enterprise look a bit cynical,' leaving P2P users open to more infringement suits, he said."
  "Users won't be warned if they accidentally find child porn on the network, since those files aren't user-originated and won't be considered 'sensitive,' Sydnor said. 'The defense attorneys have begun to pick up on this,' claiming their clients aren't guilty of distributing child porn, a charge with higher penalties than possession, because it was inadvertent, he said."
• "FCC chief seeks action against Comcast," The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 12, 2008
  "'This is the foot in the door for big government to regulate the Internet,' said Adam Thierer, a senior fellow at the Progress and Freedom Foundation, a free-market think tank in Washington. 'This is the beginning of a serious regulatory regime. For the first time, the FCC is making law around net neutrality.'"
• "The FCC's Compromiser in Chief," The Washington Post, July 10, 2008
  "'He's guided more than anything by where the political winds are blowing and not by any particular philosophical view of anything,' said Ken Ferree, president of the Progress & Freedom Foundation, a conservative policy shop."
• "FCC Chief Martin: The Nation's Indecency Czar," The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 3, 2008
  "Adam Thierer, senior fellow at the Progress and Freedom Foundation, another think tank, said: 'There is no doubt in my mind that a big part of the battle over a la carte is social or cultural in nature, and not just economic.'"
• "Political Radio May Soon See Censorship," CBN News, July 2, 2008
  "'The problem with the fairness doctrine is the government is the one dictating what is quote unquote is "fair." And the problem with that is, it ends up becoming a very bureaucratic process to regulate speech and speech output according to who's in power,' said Adam Thierer of the conservative Progress and Freedom Foundation."
• "Making-Available Not the Issue in Thomas P2P Trial, RIAA Says," Washington Internet Daily, July 2, 2008
  "In a rehearing brief, defendant Thomas claims that amicus briefs filed by the MPAA and Progress & Freedom Foundation in support of the RIAA 'were authored by parties very closely related to plaintiffs herein.' Sony BMG and Universal Music Group are part of companies with film studios, making the RIAA an MPAA sibling, the brief said."
• "Bill to Force Ads On TV to Keep It Down," The Washington Times, June 30, 2008
  "[But] some, such as Adam Thierer of the Progress & Freedom Foundation (PFF), are not pleased that elected officials are concerning themselves with our eardrums.
  "'As we all learned in our high school Civics 101 classes, this was why the American Revolution was fought: We Americans have an unambiguous constitutional birthright to be free from the tyranny of "excessive loudness" during commercial breaks,' Mr. Thierer, a director of the free-market group's Center for Digital Media Freedom, wrote on the PFF blog last week.
  "'I look forward to the day when I can visit the FCC and see my tax dollars at work as teams of bureaucrats closely monitor each episode of "Desperate Housewives" and "Swingtown" in search of such malicious volume manipulation during the commercial breaks,' Mr. Thierer said."
• "PFF Paper Urges FCC Not to Leave Wireless ETFs Alone," Telecom A.M., June 26, 2008
  "Testimony at the recent FCC hearing on early termination fees should lead commissioners to conclude that the U.S. wireless market is highly competitive and the agency need not limit the ability of wireless carriers to charge the fees, Progress and Freedom Foundation's Barbara Esbin said in a white paper. 'The overwhelming majority of consumers will choose a term contract plan with discounted equipment and monthly charges over the alternatives, and all carriers offer alternative pricing plans,' the paper said. 'That fact alone warrants caution to any approach that would result in cessation of use of ETFs as a service contract option.'"
• "PFF Fellow Seeks FCC ETF Policy," TR Daily, June 25, 2008
  "The FCC should adopt rules on early termination fees (ETFs), according to Barbara Esbin, a senior fellow at the Progress & Freedom Foundation and director of its Center for Communications and Competition Policy. 'Issues concerning the reasonableness of wireless service contract ETFs and the manner in which they are assessed and imposed should be determined by the FCC, with input from all interested parties, including the state public utility commissions and consumer advocates,' Ms. Esbin said in a commentary released today."
• "'Making Available' Theory Takes Center Stage in RIAA v. Thomas," BetaNews, June 23, 2008
  "Thomas Sydnor of the Progress and Freedom Foundation seemed to support [the MPAA] argument in a separate brief, arguing further that the Copyright Act was intended to be flexible and technology-neutral, as its writers couldn't have possibly imagined the new ways of distribution that now exist, and courts and copyright holders must adapt to."

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