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This article discusses and describes what apps you can have to help improve your health and get back in shape

This article discusses the affect that the internet has on Americans when it comes to getting news as well as what online sources they use.

This is an article that gives information about how students use the internet as a way to cheat in class.

This article explains very well what people don't realize and how it affects you when they are downloading music illegally.

I thought this was a neat article because it shows how close Myspace and Facebook were only a few years ago and now Facebook is dominant.

One way that some have tried to deal with piracy is by suing large groups of people that are sharing a file, rather than sue individual people. The problem is that there is a debate on whether it is alright to clump these people into a single case. This article shows that some attorneys have ruled that you may not lump multiple file sharers into a single case, while others have ruled this practice to be fine.

Looks at a piece of legislation being debated right now that is intended to address piracy. "The bill would give the government legal tools to blacklist a "rogue" website from the Internet's Domain Name System, ban credit card companies from processing US payments to the site, and forbid US-based online ad networks from working with the site. It even directs the government to keep a list of suspect sites, even though no evidence has been presented against them in court."

Here is a link to a video Website, in which a person can view movies and music videos.

The is a link to a video Website that has music and movie videos.

In our discusssion of print vs Internet, this article from April 21, 2011 Wall Street Journal brings up the fact that not just news is affected by this. Large publishing houses are being by-passed in favor of self-published titles. The article states that 15 of the top 50 digital best-sellers at Amazon are those priced at $5 or less.

The Wall Street Journal article from Thursday, April 21, 2011 discusses the boom in sales of the IPhone despite disaster in Japan and ill health of Steve Jobs. Just more proof that the U.S. is going mobile.

Here is an article on how more people read the news online than ever before.

From The Wall Street Journal, Saturday, April 16, 2011, the Feds are filing charges against large gambling sites that are operating from foreign soil. They are hiding credit card payments from gamblers by showing the purchases to be flowers, jewelry, etc. The U.S. authorities are taking a hard line against these sites and seized their domain names.

This has interesting stuff about how income correlates to likelihood to rate and review products, pay for online content, book travel, and access online news.

Article about a 2010 computer hacker case. Could be useful in explaining legal ramifications of crime activities.

This is on the legal ways that sites of cyber crime activities have to be searched and or not searched. The laws evolving cyber criminals

April 18, 2011 Wall Street Journal has this article regarding the changes about to happen for those that are regular online poker players. Some lost money that had built up in their accounts and others are wondering how they will fill their time.

This girl sent pics to her boyfriend over a year ago and is now recieving phoe calls from strangers becasue the pics ended up on the Internet.

This describes the 15 most popular online sites for news by how many unique visitors they have per month.

Very good article that clears up grey areas in downloading music on the internet

This website has great information on the laws of copyright laws