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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. Re:Evil or incompetence? by ceoyoyo · · Score: 1, Troll

    You forgot one on the stupid side:

    Release your movie in such a way that people who buy it can't play it. Frustrated customers return disc as broken and download movie from The Pirate Bay.

  2. Re:PS3 by icsx · · Score: 0, Troll

    Problem is that if you disallow connection, you cant play the disk.

  3. Re:PS3 by morari · · Score: 0, Troll

    They should have updated that film in a way that made it not suck instead...

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