09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0

What is that number? The key to unlock DRM on the new Blue Ray HDVDs. It's been around for a while, since feb., and has been slowly creeping around the net in forums and such. It didn't go big news until it got involved with a cover-up conspiracy on Digg however. Some lawyer thought it would be better to remove the post from this popular community news site, and all hell broke loose! So what's so great about this code? I think it's the base of the encryption that they use in the DRM butyou have to be a real GEEK to know how to use it, but I'm sure it's only a matter of time until someone fits it into a keychain remote to kill the DRM in this new Technology. When will the Big Guys get it? DRM is gonna kill them. It's pointless, useless and just causes a pain for people who actually pay for the content rather than those who are pirating it.

with thousands of Internet users now impudently breaking the law, Mr. Sprigman said that the entertainment and technology industries would have no realistic way to pursue a legal remedy. “It’s a gigantic can of worms they’ve opened, and now it will be awfully hard to do anything with lawsuits,” he said.

Example for you to think about. I don't watch many of the shows on TV, as it's on TV and I never have the time to watch them. But every now and then, I've got to keep up with what my students are talking about, so I have to watch a Heroes, or Lost or something. Where do I goto watch this? Sure you can Bittorrent this stuff all day (or weeks) waiting for episodes to download, but I'm impatient. I just got to one of these to sites for my movies and Tv shows if I don't already have them on my Mail Rental DVD list.

Tvlinks
VideoHybrid

On a final thought, if Big Media wants us to pay money for content, I have a real simple solution for them. MAKE BETTER CONTENT!!!!! How many Summer Blockbuster line-ups this year are gonna be remakes or sequels? Something like 80%. Get creative guys!
Enjoy!

Meetup in Montreal

I'm going to Montreal this week together with Tamara, and Martin Lessard has been kind enough to arrange a blogger meet-up there. I'm really stoked. Here is the link to his post with the details and the post below. I can't wait!!!!

Gabe McIntyre, AKA Bad Mother Vlogger, XOLO.TV Vlogger will be in Montreal. (French version)

To welcome him, I planned a gathering for all active/non-active/wannabe/curious blogger/vlogger/web2.0 trend setter of Montreal and vincinity,

Come on in for a drink: March 8th, 2007, from 5 pm à 7 pm at the Méliès. (Quite central, isn't!)

Everyone are invited, join the club! (and 7pm isn't really a formal limit)

So far here's the one who confirmed their presence : Philippe Martin (from YulBuzz), Michel Leblanc, Éric Baillargeon, Sébastien Provencher, Marie-Chantale Turgeon, Christian Car (from Meïdia), Catalina Briceno.

If you're interested, please leave me a comment to confirm that you'll be joining us (just to make sure I make enough reservation in the lounge area).

Dolphin Masacre in Japan

This video is not for the faint hearted. If you love dolphins like I do, it will be difficult to watch. But what can we do?

If you goto this website you can at least sign a petition to get the Japanese government to change thier actions.

Go Vlog Yourself on National TV

Go Vlog Yourself on National TV

How cool is this! This week on National TV in Holland the top band BLOF played a set. The guitarist was wearing a XOLO.TV shirt! A salute to all the vloggers! Oh yeah baby!!!! The guys from BLOF are so cool for doing that. Plus is great that I like their music as well. Always helps eh :-).

Which Superhero are you? Results

Apparently I am IRON MAN!!!! Cool. Iron Man rocks, although I think I would prefer to be the Silver Surfer and jet out of here sometimes. But then I'd miss Tamara too much, so she'd have to surf with me. But Iron MAn is pretty cool as well.

Your results:
You are Iron Man

Iron Man 80% Spider-Man 75% Hulk 70% Superman 65% Green Lantern 65% The Flash 60% Catwoman 60% Robin 50% Supergirl 50% Batman 45% Wonder Woman 40%

Inventor. Businessman. Genius.

Click here to take the "Which Superhero are you?" quiz...

A World Dance

There is a reason this video has been viewed 4.4 million times
by John in DC - 1/21/2007 01:32:00 PM

Matt is a 30 year old guy from Connecticut who traveled around the world and decided to film himself dancing, badly, on camera (using his simple little Canon digital camera, same one I've got). Then he got home, and edited the video by himself. That's it. Watch it. You'll be a better person for it. (And turn up your speakers.)

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNF_P281Uu4]

Read more about Matt here.

Route 66 - From Thailand to Virtual friends

Route 66
Originally uploaded by aaleksander.

Most of the time you hear about people meeting eachother from other countries online first, then travelling great distances to meet ypo in real life. Well this is story is the exact opposite. While Tamara and I were travelling in thailand we met Alex from Poland. You know how backpackers meet-up. It was a day I'll never forget becuase that day I heard I got my first seeding money for XOLO, and the day before Tamara and I swam with Dolphins. But I digress. We met up with Alex in a club on this island in Thailand, and he told about travelling around wanting to do photography professionally. He had more or less just started. I told him all about blogging, flickr, podcasting, vlogging etc. and he was really interested. Now a few months later I get a message from him that he has some of his travel photos online, and I REALLY like them. He's thinking about doing some travel vlogs, and I wish him all the best with it. What I'm trying to say here is it's nice to goto another country, meet someone from yet another country and then virtually travel with them after we have physically departed from one another. You never know who the highway or virtual highway has instore for your life.

I was right!!! The iPhone is out by Apple

I said it on XOLO.TV just a couple of weeks ago, and people didn't notice. Well it is out! The Apple iPhone is here. Not a a complete iPod of 60 GB, but it just about is. For those who just got a N93 (like me) damn! Oh well. Something to get to test asap!!!

Here's a link to the site.

Cheers!!!

P.S. I wonder if it has a vibrate function. Okay no jokes about the ibrator now!

ABM AMRO in Second Life

I opened up my online bank to transfer over rent and so forth and I see a new message that ABN AMRO has opened an office in second life. Oh man there goes the nieghborhood. So let me think what you could do? Store your Linden? Or how about transfer Linden to Euros, Dollars, Yen and back? I think it's mainly a show at the moment. That they just thought, "We have to be in Second Life becuase everyone else is." But in my opinion Second life really blows with all these companies coming in and "re-doing" real life in second life. Make something new, different like the ABM loan sharks club or something. Second life is supposed to be an imaginative exploration. Not a copy of real life. In any case, here is what the mail read:

Geachte relatie,
ABN AMRO opent, als eerste bank in Europa, de deuren van een virtuele vestiging in Second Life. Hiermee zetten we een eerste stap in de richting van de volgende generatie internet. Het doel is om de nieuwe toepassingen van deze omgeving te onderzoeken en te ontdekken. Ook voor u als ondernemer, biedt het wellicht nieuwe mogelijkheden.
Wilt u meer weten over Second Life en onze vestiging aldaar? Lees er hier meer over.
Met vriendelijke groet,
Drs. J. de Ruiter, Directeur MKB
Drs. F.H.D. Josephus Jitta, Directeur Directe Kanalen en Innovatie

Translation: ABN AMRO wants to help you as a company in second life. --- Right.

Brazillians hate youtube

Youtube may see the Brazillians in court becuase of a little scandal with one of thier beloved football stars ex-wives.
Brazilian court orders YouTube shutdown | The Register : "A Brazilian court has ordered the closure of YouTube following the site's failure to completely remove a video showing Ronaldo's ex-missus and her new boyf indulging in a bit a of beach rumpy-pumpy, Reuters reports.

Model Daniela Cicarelli sued YouTube after the offending film proved a smash hit among Brazilian YouTubers. She and squeeze Tato Malzoni last year 'filed to force YouTube to take the video down and demanded $116,000 in damages for each day the video remains up'. Although YouTube did indeed remove some copies, other users reposted it and the whole sorry exposure dragged on for months."

Now what will ever stop them from re-posting and re-posting and re-posting. I mean honestly. It's a never ending cycle. Is this just meantt to be doomed? Funny how you never hear about revver, blip or metacafe being sued.