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<img alt="Any_key_3" title="Any_key_3" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/any_key_2.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />The Morning Reboot:

*	[Blu-Ray DRM has been cracked][1]. The HD-DVD competitor no longer needs to feel left out. The same person who cracked HD-DVD DRM has applied the technique to Blu-Ray and found that it works.

[1]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/01/bluray_drm_crac.html "Blu-Ray DRM Cracked"

*	Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and some others have apparently been working with human rights groups and legal experts to [devise a code of conduct][2] for protecting online free speech and privacy. I'm pretty sure that's not a joke. Perhaps Google just doesn't consider China part of the internet.

[2]: http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/wpn-60-20070122GoogleYahooMSDevisingCodeofConduct.html "Google, Yahoo, MS Devising Code Of Conduct"

*	A virus [spread through spam emails][3] with subject lines like "Fidel Castro dead" and "Saddam Hussein safe and sound" has infected thousands of computers according to Spain's Association of Internauts. Wait a sec, there's an Association of Internauts?

[3]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070122/tc_afp/spaincubainternet "'Castro is dead' spam email infects computers"

*	Rumor: [Techcrunch reports][4] that the domain google.de was done for many hours yesterday possibly because Google forgot to renew the domain name. If that's true is sure makes me feel better about the two domains I lost for the same reason.

[4]: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/23/google-forgets-to-renew-googlede-site-goes-down/ "Google Doesn't Renew Google.de, Site Goes Down"

*	This just in: DRM still sucks.