Nicholas Freed

9/17/2010

• HDCP antipiracy leak
• Summary
• HDCP or High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection was cracked this means that the market will be flooded with lots of bootleg DVD's and blu-ray movies hdcp is the thing that copyrights most movies on digital devices

• this has to do with the integrity and the authenticity

9/21/10

• [1]Activision: Violent games law chokes free speech
• Summary
• This article has to do with violence in video games and peoples first amendment rights. Basicaly some people in california dont like the fact that minors can buy M rated games in stores and this case has worked its way up to the U.S. Supreme Court. This court case has to do with whether video games are protected under the first amendemt.

• Stake holders in this article are as mentoined in the article Acticision and the United States government.

• This article ties into the policies and standards part of ITGS.

• The impacts me at the moment as for now I am still a minor who likes to play voilent video games

• To solve this I would just leave the laws as they are to purchase video games