Music labels learned that less restrictions on digital music have increased their sales. However, video game developers are using stricter DRM policies to attempt to deter piracy.

This article briefly describes the obstacles that creators and users of digital media face involving digital rights management.

After the controversial awards ceremony that took place on August 25, many people who support the Television Consumer Freedom Act are demanding cable providers to enable customers to pay only for channels that they choose to support. Arizona Senator John McCain supports this and other changes that would allow more freedom for consumers to choose what they purchase from cable companies.

Churchgoers that have declined to receive vaccination for religious reasons have been linked to a small outbreak of measles. This example of a concentrated area of people with lowered immunity to certain diseases may be presented as evidence for future proposals to require citizens to receive vaccinations.

Facebook has once again changed their rules regarding user privacy. They have also increased the use of facial recognition to more easily track user-uploaded pictures.

This editorial mentions the organization of fast-food workers to strike against unlivable minimum wages. The author hopes these actions will "breathe life" into a slowing labor movement, but states concern that the workers may not have the leverage to effect change.

New information has been released by the Administration regarding the implementation of new health care laws soon to be put into effect. Included in the release is a list of individuals who will be held exempt from being fined for not purchasing health insurance, as well as the amounts of fines that uninsured citizens will pay when the law goes into effect.

This article reports testing of a new system of teaching by the Khan Academy, a provider of free online teaching videos. It is currently being tested in a group of schools in San Francisco. Once more information on results is gathered, the new system may become an effective tool to reach more children that struggle with learning.

The author of this piece suggests that we should view environmental issues such as climate change as another type of civil rights movement. She parallels events like Hurricane Katrina to inequalities that African-Americans still face today.

Before 3-dimensionial printing has had a chance to become a popular household trend, a company named Authentise has already set up a business model to protect other companies from "physical piracy" of their intellectual property. The service will allow users to buy official designs for 3D printing, but will limit the number of copies a user can print before the design is destroyed.

New laws were recently passed in an attempt to reduce highway fatalities caused by fatigued truck drivers. The biggest change is the addition of mandatory downtime of over a day to allow time for truckers to rest. This article details the new requirements, and includes responses from people in the trucking industry, both for and against the new legislature.

The article discusses the difficulty of achieving "perfect privacy" with internet communication tools. The shortcomings of several forms of communication in protecting privacy are described.