As always, This Week in Tech manages to hit on a lot of huge issues, but somehow avoids talking about Apple for most of this week’s show! Starting things off, the guys talk about the aggrevating steps that the FCC is taking to appease the MPAA. They’ve recently ruled that the MPAA and associated movie studios have the right to disable analog video output for films broadcast through set-top boxes, in a move to offer pre-release access to movies on the track to sell on DVD.
Facebook has been in the news a lot lately for their controversial stance on privacy and the TWiT team gets to weigh in. Leo and Cali agree that Facebook remains a great tool for people in their public positions to hone social interest, but the use of the service ends when personal information gets involved. Facebook is overstepping on yet another level, though, as rumors tell of Zynga’s impending move away from the service. This is speculated to be due to Facebook’s intention to have an integrated game credit service so they can take a monetary cut from successful games with microtransactions.
The show closes out with some talk about new Skype features, Darth Vader coming to TomTom, and Clearwire’s possible move away from WiMAX.
FCC gives MPAA control, selloff blip, Facebook and 3rd-parties, Zynga Live, and more.
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