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Fellow geeks, now I need your help, please!

I need to generate a huge amount of traffic within a short period of time on one of my servers and this is where I need you guys. Everyone who can spare a little bit of bandwidth e.g. at night could help me by repeatedly downloading this file: http://essen213.server4you.de/du.mp4. You can delete the file right after downloading and start over again (it is a recent DigitalUpgrade show, if you wonder what it is about).

If you are using OS X, Linux or Unix you can create a .sh file with this content:

#!/bin/sh

# Loop forever

while :

do

curl http://essen213.server4you.de/du.mp4 -o /dev/null

done # Start over

This loads it right to nowhere and starts over after it has finished.

If you are on windows this won’t work, so I created a folder with 2000 symlinks to that file: http://essen213.server4you.de/download if you grab all these links using e.g. DownThemAll it’ll do the same trick.

(Hopefully) the download speed will become VERY slow sometime, but don’t worry, this is what I hope for.

This is really my own server, so it is really ok to do this, it won’t hurt anyone. This server doesn’t contain anything but this file.

I’d like to ask you to do this for a few days (or nights), this should really help a lot.