Yeah I just believe that you can only go so far with an app that is used to send funny pictures to your friends, the fun will eventually die. It just seems to be the same Ron Conway and group going money going round in a circle with a lot of these companies.
I'm not sure this series could be redundant as it's free and Michael's videos cost money. Michael's website also looks like one of those classic 2001 sales pitch/squeeze page which makes me doubt the quality of the tutorials.
Nice man I like the idea, its loading a bit slow for me just now but I recon that's cause its reached front page.
I'm working on something using IMDB information as well right now, hope you done mind If I share it. It's getting an overhaul right now and more features are being implemented as we speak.
Trying to give out this type of help is counter productive, visiting a website could get you infected. Antiviruses won't tell you when you have been infected with a zero-day but they will help you out later. It's best to have or to run files in a sandbox before you use them on a production system.
Distance between the exchanges is a factor, I believe there is a minimum distances each company can be between the exchanges.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq1Ln1UCoEU
This video at 23:27 talks about minimum 1000ft cable.
People on here are talking about attachments and being smart enough not to fall for sham downloads, but this isn't how most of ransomeware is spread to its victims. They use exploit packs and 0 days. Visiting a website that's been hijacked with an Iframe or a proxy that embeds an Iframe or any other data to the HTML that is returned could get you infected. There is no full proof way around this unfortunately.
Edit: The website is responsive, clearly got there priorities sorted.