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"Iron Man" Release Brings Down Paramount's Servers

Posted by kdawson on from the super-hero-effect dept.

secmartin writes "Shortly after the release of Iron Man on Blu-ray on October 1, people started complaining of defective discs; the problem turned out to be that all the Blu-ray players downloading additional content brought down Paramount's BD-Live servers, causing delays while loading the disc. Which really makes you wonder what will happen when they decide to shut down this service in a couple of years."

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  1. Emo iPhone Losers Too Please! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Sung to the tune Imagine:

    Imagine if there were no iPhones. It's easy if you try...

  2. Re:Why is it downloading at all? by PunkOfLinux · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It's not the lack of knowledge about Blu-Ray that makes you ignorant. It's the fact that you can't spell 'ignorance'.

    And I think this was more of a "updataeable content" bit anyway.

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  3. whole story such a load of crap by timmarhy · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    yeah, but all accounts it gave anyone with a 1/2 decent player an extra 10 second delay. cry me a fucking river.

    this is totally trumped up.

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  4. That Reminds Me Of A Funny Story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Remember when all of you Xbox retards ran out and bought HD-DVD players and that crappy add on for the Dreamcast 360 and hundreds to thousands of dollars in useless HD-DVD discs and sat around in forums like Slashdot posting garbage about Sony like "once again has questionable execution" and a million other bits of crap

    and then your shitty format HD-DVD died.

    That was fucking hilarious. Do you still cry at night dhall?

  5. I bought Iron Man on Tuesday by future+assassin · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    in DVD format. Put in into my $50 Toshiba player and wathced it with 0 problems. Long live the DVD format. BluRay what? $300 players LOL!

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    by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
  6. Re:Sony could have learned from Microsoft by mgblst · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    You are a dickhead. There is no reason this video couldn't just play if it had a problem contacting base. Sure I can't read slashdot when it is down, but it doesn't freeze my whole computer. Sure, i can't go to the ATM when it is down, but it doesn't force me to stay there until it is back up.