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Lord of the Rings Theatrical Trailer

Posted by michael on from the one-compressed-video-format-to-bind-them dept.

BadmanX writes: "The brand new Lord of the Rings trailer that ran on several shows tonight (including the season premier of Angel) is available for download from Apple's Quicktime site." Hmmm. Mirrors definitely needed.

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  1. Recommended fansite by pointwood · · Score: 4, Informative

    If you are in search for more information - I highly recommend TheOneRing.net. It's a really cool site, updated very often.

  2. Lesson In Distribution by shut_up_man · · Score: 5, Informative
    I really wish big companies would GET A CLUE when it comes to distributing popular content on the net. They just keep on screwing it up, over and over, during the WTC attack and every time anything to do with LoTR or Star Wars gets posted.
    • Mirroring is essential. And NOT like having three web servers in the same building, you fools. Scatter them all over the world, and provide links from the official site so people can make choices about where they slurp from.

    • Choose providers who can handle this sort of load balancing, like Akamai. What the hell piddly server is squeeze.sorensen.com? No wonder it exploded a nansecond after it got posted.

    • Allow downloads, instead of streaming-only distribution. Golf claps for doing this for the latest LoTR trailer, but big boos for messing the rest up.

    • Let people mirror the files themselves - in fact, ENCOURAGE it. People want to help, let them. Don't get all caught up in legal crap, in case you haven't realised it, we're making copies for our friends already.

    • Throw files on a P2P service like Kazaa. P2P is PERFECT for this kind of distribution.

    It's all freaking simple, people.

    shut up man
  3. MIRROR: I just put it on Morpheus by BenHmm · · Score: 5, Informative


    search Morpheus for "fellowshipoftherings_fs.mov"

    it's the full screen version, and *hell*yes*it*rocks*

    I've throttled the max uploads to save myself, if you get it, spread it around...

  4. the easiest way to get these files is always P2P by Kraft · · Score: 4, Informative

    1. Get Morpheus.
    2. Install and run it.
    3. Select "Video" and search for "Lord of the rings"
    4. then you should be able to get in a few mins. The problem is figuring out what the hell the file is called.

    With apples shit site, I have to upgrade to a new version of quicktime, which took me forever and it still doesn't work. I wanted to get the zip file from the sorensen server... but it's dead.

    ... or you can just view the file here:
    http://homepage.mac.com/johnemdall/.Movies/lotr- tv 240.mov

    --

    -Kraft
    Live and let live
  5. 9/6 Trailer is not 9/24 Trailer by Gregoyle · · Score: 5, Informative

    Thanks to all those posting links to tolkien-movies.com and Ain't it Cool News, but the trailers they have from Sept 6th are not the same as the one from last night, Sept. 24th.

    To my knowledge none of the mirror sites have it yet (although that could change). TheOneRing.Net just posts a link to the broken Apple/Sorenson server. They may be available on the Morpheous/Kazaa network; I'm at work and haven't been able to check. I'd post a mirror, too, except I haven't been able to get the latest trailer myself :-).

    --

    "He's more machine now than man, twisted and evil."

  6. I've set up a mirror... by infernix · · Score: 5, Informative

    I mirrored the Large version (480x204), it's 18MB. If I find the fullscreen version I'll put it up there too. Grab it here:

    http://lotr.infernix.net/

    Note: PLEASE SATURATE THIS LINK.

    I repeat: PLEASE SATURATE THIS LINK.

    It's our (yet) unused new uplink and I'd like to stress-test it.

    Thanks ;)

    infernix

    1. Re:I've set up a mirror... by psychos · · Score: 5, Informative
      Fullscreen .mov file

      This is a fast mirror (the one in the parent message is horribly saturated).