This week on the show, we discussed the new US law that makes it legal to jailbreak an iPhone or rip a DVD and we complained about our much more restrictive British laws. We also looked at the news in a week when more Facebook data was leaked, broadband speeds are back in the spotlight and HMV tries to make money again.
News
Details from 100 million Facebook accounts 'leaked' online
Ofcom says we need better information about broadband speed
Sky launching proper 3D channel in October
HMV relaunches digital music store, still not the cheapest
Crave
Panasonic 3D camera
New graphite Amazon Kindle
Virgin Media Player
Feature: We should be allowed to hack our hardware
For a long time it was illegal to jailbreak an iPhone, or circumvent DRM on a DVD, even if you just wanted to use a clip in your own review. Now though, the US has seen sense and made changes to its DMCA legislation that make reasonable fair use legal. The UK lags behind though -- many of these things are still illegal here, which we think is jolly unfair.
Woot of the Week
We give props to the Porsche 918 Spyder, it's a hybrid and a Porsche to boot. Even cooler, it should be congestion-charge exempt and is more efficient than the Prius.
Single syllable review
It's Ian's turn to review a product using only a single syllable or sound. He shares his brief opinion of the Pangoo 32S700, which receives a much fuller review here.
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baeta 31 July, 2010 23:18
In regards to rushing towards the end of the podcast, the game spot podcast is 1 1/2 hours long and yet they use the same podcast room? Why does the CNET podcast only get 30 minutes? I don't get it. I'd always thought you couldn't be bothered to do longer podcasts, but actually your specifically restricted.
Anonymous 4 August, 2010 13:12
When you open up your competitions, it will be nice, at least for once to pick a winner from a different platform. I know the issue re: facebook, different platforms has been debated, discussed etc etc..and its really great that the presenters pay attention to what's here as well as facebook, e mails etc.. I was going through the recent podcasts and although its clear that listeners have participated in competitions through this platform, when it comes to picking someone, the focus is back on Facebook and what's been said there. Mentions are made to comments made on this platform - and that's pretty much about what can be expected.
For example, in response to episode 195 where Ian asked the listeners to make some comments about the podcast (good or bad) one of the listeners had taken time to set out a really good piece (rating out of 5) - I think it was mentioned in the next episode, but, then the winner could only be chosen from facebook...and Luke did not even mention WHY that particular person was chosen and what kind of comment was made about the podcast-was it good? bad? And whilst there was mention, discussion about the comments left here, of course the winner had to come from FB. And looking at other posts, lots participate on this platform as I would imagine, like me, they are not on FB and dont wish to be of it, but, its almost like ... 'you can participate and interact with cnetuk podcast and the competition we open up, but chances of winning if not on FB are very very slim'.