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welcome to the queue Week in Review I'm rich demuro with cnet TV and we're taking a look at what's making tech news for the fourth week of may 2007 but first let's get you started with a battle of intergalactic proportions for America's favorite new Star Wars stamps those r2d2 mailboxes no joke it's all part of a promotion for 15 commemorative Star Wars stamps America got to vote on their favorite which will be released as a single stamp later this summer myspace making a deal with various state attorney general's in an attempt to keep sex offenders off the site the deal uses technology called Sentinel safe myspace will check profile information against state and federal databases to flag and delete suspected sex offender profiles according to news com the program already flagged and deleted about 7,000 suspected profiles out of the 180 million on the site we could get a little more freedom to copy high-definition discs if a plan under consideration by the big movie companies is approved while the motion picture association of america would like us to back up our dvds by going to bestbuy and getting another copy if you're like me that seems kind of silly now under a proposed licensing agreement consumers would get to make a few legal copies of their HD DVDs and blu-ray discs you can even rip the DVD to a home media server system the concept called managed copy the studios would still have to approve it taking you around cnet now sure it may not be American Idol but web where is now taking votes for the best web apps web where is a scene at network site where you can learn about cool and useful new web applications the web where 100 looking for the best in 10 categories you can vote for your favorites and browsing media mobile entertainment and more you might even have fun just finding out more about the finalists you're allowed one vote in each category so make it count finally the beta everybody plane ticket one day only to find out the next at the fair went down 100 bucks or so now yop does got your back the website which means your amazing personal travel assistance founded by a former airline exec it keeps track of your purchased flights and emails you if the price goes down when it does the site helps you collect refunds in the form of travel vouchers or cold hard cash so far the average refund running about a hundred bucks there's just something about free money it's so nice that's it for this Q remember to check out the show notes for links to everything we mentioned here find it at blog sina TV com I'm Romero with seen a TV in New York City don't say it in tell you so for more video like this go to cnet com and click on cnet TV