DigitalOutbox Episode 176

DigitalOutbox Episode 176 DigitalOutbox Episode 176 - Twitter Trolls, Now TV and goodbye Skydrive Playback Listen via iTunes Listen via M4A Listen via MP3 Shownotes 0:41 - Twitter under fire after bank note campaigner is target of rape threats 7:55 - Internet troll who abused Mary Beard apologises after threat to tell his mother 9:36 - UK 'losing fight' against internet crime, warn MPs 13:39 - Google asked to remove 100 million 'piracy' links in 2013 16:18 - Blu-ray successor plan unveiled by Sony and Panasonic 19:20 - Microsoft forced to rename SkyDrive following trademark case with broadcaster 22:10 - British broadcaster BSkyB launches £9.99 Now TV set-top box to make all TVs smart 24:34 - The Old Reader bites the dust 27:46 - Brits can now get hands-off with the Autographer wearable camera 30:33 - Asda removes Nintendo's Wii U from stores Picks Ian Immunicity - simple censorship circumvention - basically, configure browser to point to a proxy.pac file. This file contains the latest list of URLs that are commonly censored in the UK. When your send a request to one of these sites, your browser is instructed to route that traffic via our HTTP proxy server gateway.immunicity.net:8080 which will fetch the content and send it back to you. When you send a request for a website that isn't on our list of URLs that are commonly censored, your browser connects directly to that site, bypassing our servers completely. - free but costs money to run and so looking for donations - provided by torrenticity - http://torrenticity.com/