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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. Great Idea! by Gazzonyx · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now that they've got their servers back up and running, let's slashdot 'em!
    Now I remember why I decided to go with software development over network administration!

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    1. Re:Great Idea! by Joe+U · · Score: 5, Funny

      Now I remember why I decided to go with software development over network administration!

      As a network administrator, let me be the first to say, I hate you.

    2. Re:Great Idea! by Gazzonyx · · Score: 5, Funny

      The feeling is mutual. But, look on the bright side... at least we're not database administrators :)

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    3. Re:Great Idea! by stoolpigeon · · Score: 5, Funny

      And you know why we become DBAs - because we don't just hate you -- we hate everybody. Us Oracle DBAs even hate ourselves.

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    4. Re:Great Idea! by DeionXxX · · Score: 5, Funny

      You're not dead yet? Damn modern medicine is keeping people alive forever... so much for quality over quantity... too bad euthanasia is not legal ;-)

    5. Re:Great Idea! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      You all better be glad we in Medicine love you all. If we were anything like you guys...

    6. Re:Great Idea! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I shudder at the thought...

      - Hey, any idea whether this tissue does anything important?
      - Can't remember... cut it out and we'll see where it breaks.

  2. STEP2 REVEALED!!!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Take a distributed distribution system.
    2. Centralize it create a single point of failure.
    3. PROFIT!

  3. Re:Why is it downloading at all? by theripper · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here's a hint:

    When picking on someone for their spelling, don't misspell words.

    Ignorat twit.

  4. Re:Why is it downloading at all? by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    You should look up the definition of ignorance. Then you should look up the definition of typo.

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

    *sigh* Well maybe by the time you've mastered usage of those words your sphincter muscles will relax enough to pull your head out.

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  5. Re:WFM. Well, FGFM. by TheSpoom · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh man, do I remember what I was doing at 6:66 PM that day... it was glorious. A beautiful flock of pigs were flying toward the sunset, and the ground beneath me seemed to be a touch colder (I remembered hearing about hell freezing over a couple of minutes beforehand). Meanwhile, someone, somewhere had divided by zero, causing my calendar to indicate that it was the year 1900.

    Good times, good times.

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  6. Re:PS3 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's not really "defectivebydesign", as it's got nothing to do with DRM. It is, however, a defective design.

    Thanks. That clears it up.

  7. Possible solution... by rikkards · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe they should use bittorrent to alleviate the load on their servers. :)

  8. Re:PS3 by houghi · · Score: 4, Funny

    They could even change who shot first.

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  9. Re:Why is it downloading at all? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Here's a hint:

    When picking on someone for their spelling, don't misspell words.

    Ignorat twit.

    You mispelled "twat".

  10. Re:NO. Absolutely NOT. by ultranova · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't want a MOVIE eating up internet bandwidth. A movie is to be WATCHED, not waste my 250GB bandwidth cap on fucking ADVERTISEMENTS.

    Only a pirate terrorist would deny a corporate citizen its inalienable right to profit. Why do you hate freedom so much ?

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