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March 12, 2004 Link to this post
Evolution of Halo - direct download
The Evolution of Halo release, via p2p networks, a couple of days ago was a pretty big success; I don't have Two Degrees stats, but BitTorrent dowload numbers are in the 5000 range in the past 30 hours... that's half a terabyte of files transferred, and the hit on HBO-related servers was LESS than our normal traffic. That ROCKS. A couple of standard http-type links have popped up; if you're behind a firewall, or on some other connection that makes p2p sharing not an option for you, you can grab the file in the standard way from one of these sites. (If more come online, we'll continue to add links to the Mirror list.) For those interested: one of the links (Gamespot DLX) is a new service, offered by Gamespot; file downloads are free, though you do have to register. Speeds are quite fast, and there's no queue (or at least, I never saw one). They DID re-encode the movie; it's listed on the page as 150 mb, but it's really 161.12 mb. (Don't make the mistake I made, and cancel your download at 155 mb, thinking it's corrupt...) They're offering it in MPG format, for those who have trouble with DivX and QuickTime. (And yes, they asked first.) (Louis Wu 11:59:51 UTC)
