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

10/27/10

• [2] mobile breast scanner for breast cancer screening
• Summary
• This article has to do with a professor at Manchester university that has invented a mobile breast cancer screening device that could make the breast exams at home an option in the near future for many women.

• Stake holders in this article are as mentoined women, doctors, and the professor could possibly make alot of money off in invention.

• This article ties into the people and machines part of ITGS and it is also still breast cancer awareness month at this point in time .

• The impacts me at the moment men can get breast cancer too

• There is really no problem with this

10/27/10

• [3]Tesla (electric car company)adds a new model to the line up
• Summary
• Tesla has opened up a new plant in California. if you do not know much a bout Tesla they tend to make all electric sports cars. with their latest model you can go up to 300 miles on a single battery charge this all depends on which battery pack you get with your car though. With the plant opening they plan to bring in more jobs to the area and maybe bring back some of the jobs that were lost when the plant was closed by the last company that owed the it.

• Stake holders in this article are people interested in buying one of the cars the company and the employees who may get jobs at the new plant.

• This article ties into the people and machines part of ITGS also has to do some with the environment and going green.

• The impacts me at the moment as of now i just think the electric sports cars Tesla makes are cool.

• not really a problem but one is the cost of the cars at this point which will go down over time when the parts become cheaper to produce