This week, darknets go dark, Obama backs Net Neutrality, Internet satellites, To Spotify or not to Spotify, A new game from Blizzard, and much much more.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Andy, Dwayne & Tosin: Interstellar (Spoiler-free. Full spoiler review at end of show)

Headlines

• In major strategy shift, Microsoft Office unlocks free editing on iOS and Android tablets and phones
  • Open-source .NET, free Visual Studio, support for Linux, Mac, Android and iOS
• Global Web Crackdown Arrests 17, Seizes Hundreds Of Dark Net Domains
• Touchdown! Rosetta’s Philae probe lands on comet
  • New Meme: we can land on a comet but“¦. (kim kardashian example)
• Elon Musk’s Next Mission: Internet Satellites

Audible Book of the Week

• A User’s Guide to the Universe: Surviving the Perils of Black Holes, Time Paradoxes, and Quantum Uncertainty by Dave Goldberg, Jeff Blomquist
• Sign up at AudibleTrial.com/TheDrillDown

Music Break: We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together by Taylor Swift

Hot Topics

• Obama says FCC should reclassify internet as a utility
  • FCC pushes back against Obama on net neutrality
• Taylor Swift and Spotify
  • Details on spotify (Free: $10/mo, 50m subscribers and 12+ million paying subscribers
  • Swift pulls her music from Spotify
  • Others pull their music from Spotify
  • 1989 and commercial performance
  • Taylor Swift Would Have Made $6M This Year On Spotify (1989 Pulled In $12M In A Week)
• YouTube announces plans for a subscription music service

Music Break: Brazilian Star Wars by FAROFF

Final Word:

• Bill Cosby’s massive social media fail
• ‘Star Wars Episode VII’ Official Title
  • 11 Star Wars Titles Better Than ‘The Force Awakens’

The Drill Down Video of the Week

• Blizzard Debuts New IP ‘Overwatch’ At BlizzCon With A Beta In 2015
  • Blizzard’s Cancelled MMO Titan Became Overwatch

• Rosetta: the ambition to turn science fiction into science fact

Drill Bits: After The Show

• SPOILERific discussion of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar

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Geeks Of Doom’s The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all.

Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan. Occasionally joining them is Startup Digest CTO Christopher Burnor.