DigitalOutbox Episode 176 - Twitter Trolls, Now TV and goodbye Skydrive

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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

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/