Apple Shuts Down Tsunami Videos on Cheese & Crackers Blog

Chees and Crackers blog ^ | 12/29/2004 | Jordan Golson

[Smogger]

Apple and Bandwidth I hosted these videos on my .Mac account, after 400,000 visits, Apple decided that they had used too much bandwidth and removed the videos. I (and many others) believe this is a valuable public service. What is the problem? Apple can put up a nice home page but they won't allow bandwidth for these videos to be shared.

Make yourself heard:

Write to these addresses at Apple about providing bandwidth: .Mac feedback Steve Jobs Feedback PR Brian Mintun (The guy who emailed me initially)

Post on the AAPL Yahoo Messageboard

[Smogger]

This is wear I downloaded all of the Tsunami videos from and if you haven't seen them (and if you have been watching MSM you haven't) you should. Nothing will give you a better idea of the magnitude of what has taken place and how we are all going to have to pitch in on the relief efforts.

Jeers, to Apple for shutting down the video streams on the guys home page. It is their perrogative, but it seems like a paticularly bad PR move. Especially at a Time when the blog is raising in stature...

For the record I have six videos so far. There is another one that I have only seen in streaming format.

big_wave.wmv patong-beach.wmv penang.wmv sri-lanka-tsunami.wmv thai.wmv tsunamiphuket.wmv

I will try to find some place to host them.

[dennisw]

Thanks to him for posting while he could!

[pure_capitalist]

Send them to Drudge or http://www.dailyrecycler.com/blog/

[CedarDave]

PING

[backhoe]

Thanks for the info- I still have those 3 files, plus big_wave.wmv on my HD-- anyone who wants them, give me ( privately ) an email addy and I will send them.

[solitas]

ping

[solitas]

I haven't seen big_wave, penang, or thai.
If You find space, could You please ping us?
Unfortunately, I don't have space to help You.
Good luck.

[Swordmaker]

Smogger,

Sorry to hear Apple removed the files. I suspect that 400,000 hits may have strained your .Mac user agreement a tad. Somewhere in the fine print is a limitation on bandwidth.

You have a personal account but were using a business level bandwidth for a while there... Someone has to pay for that usage. I suspect the level of usage had risen to the level where it was adversely impacting other user's ability to access .Mac.

[libravoter]

You can find them on the Cheese and Cracker site again now.

[antiRepublicrat]

The best way to get these is by BitTorrent, that way no one person is getting his bandwidth hammered.

Download a BitTorrent client like Azureus. There's no spyware in it. Or search around for another client. Azureus needs Java to run (get it if you don't have it).

Google "tsunami video bittorrent" or just go to Torrent Reactor. Click to download where you see a link. It'll launch Azureus and download the video.

You're generally okay downloading video files, but I'd suggest having a virus scanner on your machine.