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UK Ministry of Defense Broken by Spoof Video

Posted by timothy on from the oopsie-daisy dept.

An anonymous reader submits "It seems that the Royal Dragoon Guards in Iraq decided to make a spoof of a Tony Christie video, which was recently re-released by Peter Kay for Comic Relief. However, the video file was over 50MB and it took out various e-mail systems, including those at RAF Strike Command. Despite the inadvertant denial of service attack, the MoD said the spoof was 'brilliant.'"

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  1. Re:Where can we get it now? by NetNifty · · Score: 4, Informative

    Torrent here. WMV format.

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  2. Re:Where can we get it now? by Excors · · Score: 5, Informative

    52MB WMV torrent. Also magnet:?xt=urn:btih:YVWX5ASA63LAOYSHSXG7Y2ULDEZE57 VF (minus spaces) for Azureus users, since that tracker won't be kept up for long.

  3. Correction by rpjs · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's the "UK Ministry of DefenCe", not "Defense".

    1. Re:Correction by WIAKywbfatw · · Score: 4, Informative

      Sorry, I know there are transatlantic spelling differences but I doubt even Americans spell "pedantic" as "poduntic". Time you buy yourself a dictionary.

      And, for the record, it is The Ministry of Defence, not The Ministry of Defense. I'm British, but I'd never refer to the US's equivalent, the DOD, as the Department of Defence. It's called respecting other cultures, you know?

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