Music Video Meltdown
Okay, so as you all probably know, things got a little ridiculous around here on Thursday and Friday, what with none of the links working and formatting of the post going all crazy, but things have finally been resolved. First of all, Scott from Yesterday’s Chic is kind enough to be hosting and seeding the torrent file that contains all 65 music videos, and you can download that torrent both in this post and in the actual Top 65 post below. If you don’t necessarily want to go through and download all of them, just check and uncheck which ones you do and do not want to download in the pop up window before the torrent begins downloading (NOTE: I know BitLord has this check/uncheck option, but I’m not sure about other torrent programs). This provides the perfect solution for the video downloading issue, but unfortunately ezarchive has rescinded my membership for the time being, so until I’m reinstated, you’ll be unable to download anything else on the site, but I’m working on getting back online at ezarchive as soon as possible. For those of you who are unfamiliar with BitTorrent and using torrents, I recommend downloading the BitTorrent programs BitLord (for PC users) or Azureus (for PC and Mac users). Then, download the torrent file below, unzip it, and use whichever BitTorrent program you downloaded to open the torrent (File>Open). That should have everything working nicely, and in some programs (BitLord I know) you can select and deselect the specific files (in this case, specific videos) within the torrent that you want to download, which is convenient. I hope no one runs into any difficulties, and good luck.
TORRENT FILE: Top 65 Music Videos of 2005
The reason ezarchive shut me down is a fun one though, as my video post apparently crippled their servers to the point that they had to shut down my site in order to keep their site from going down. Their explanation:
We’ve attached a screengrab to illustrate our point. As you can see, the site was topping out at triple our normal volume before we disabled your account, where upon it returned to a level that is manageable for us and for all of our members.”
Though I’m apologetic for disabling such a heavily relied-on site, I am somewhat proud (however wrong that may be) that little old Good Weather For Airstrikes brought a major company to it’s knees. However, they have offered to reinstate me if I can agree to no longer post such highly downloaded high-volume files, and I will be following their requests so as to get the rest of the download links on GWFAS back up and running. I’ve responded to their email and hopefully this can all be resolved shortly, but until then I’m afraid I won’t be able to offer anymore downloadable content. Rest assured though, Everett and I will still be working on a bunch of posts to make up for the lull that will occur over the next couple days as we work this out with ezarchive, and be sure to check back soon for more updates.
For now, in other music video-related news, I highly recommend you download Sound Team’s great new music video (though it’s been dubbed a “short film”) for “The Fastest Man Alive” which Gorilla vs. Bear, possibly the best blog out there, has made available for download in iPod Format here.
Video:
“The Fastest Man Alive” - Sound Team [iPod Compatible]