Oh The Events That Have Taken Place...
Well, some of you may be reading this because you found this site through a friend so something, so you may not have seen this post. Now that you have seen it, you are probably thinking, “I wonder what was there.” Well there my friends, were three links posted to three movie clips hosted on my server. Now you may be thinking, “Why did you take down three clips?
Saturday night, Arn over at MacRumors posted a blog entry, saying he had, from his sources, three video clips claiming to be the 6th Gen iPod’s new UI. The post was plastered all over the internet. On Engadget, Digg, Gizmodo, and many other sites. Then the video was posted on YouTube so everybody thought this was good. Then people started speculating whether this was real or not. To many people’s disbeliefs, it may in fact be real.
Once the speculation and conversation started on a roll, it all stopped suddenly. The links, and the blog entry for that matter, on the MacRumors site was gone. Many people started asking why it was taken down. Their answer was then put back up on the same blog entry: “[removed per request from Apple Legal].” This brought up many a controversy, mainly from new MacRumors: Forums users, claiming that MacRumors was a pawn to Apple and that MacRumors tends to “bow down to Apple.” I mean honestly, why would you not want to take Apple’s advice and take the content down? Apple could sue you into oblivion and make it seem like you never had a life online.
Well, among this news, I decided, being my brave and bold self (yeah, whatever) that I might as well mirror them onto my site. I thought it was safe for the time being since YouTube still had their videos up on their site. So I posted the links on a blog post and set it out on MacRumors. Well, needless to say, it was visited really, really quickly and frequently. I don’t believe there was a 10 minute break between any of the visits. Considering my site is very small and doesn’t get that many visits, this was quite the shocker.
Well, I started to get a little worried when member Peace posted that YouTube had taken the video down. I was getting a little nervous at that point, but decided that I might as well wait out the storm. As I watched the page views go higher and higher and then proceed to post the link onto Digg (where it got a whole 7 Diggs, mind you), my nerves keep going on end and then off, on and off. It seemed to happen all day. When I didn’t think about it, it didn’t bother me, but when I say anything relating to it, I got a little more jumpy.
When I signed on the internet tonight at about 9:20PM CT, I still realized that I had no email. I thought they were going to send me an email 48 hours later like they did with YouTube. So I kept on going and talking to friends about it and then it all came to a screeching halt at 11:27PM. In general, it basically said “You have our content, we’d like you to take it down immediately.” So I complied, replied back, at 11:41PM, and got another reply back at 11:59PM basically saying that everything was dropped, nothing was left on the table.
So there you have it. The story of the mystery post. I must say it was quite the ride and a lot of fun seeing my stats go higher and higher and higher. I mean, it was fun bragging to my friends about how I had 2,500+ page loads and also was emailed by Apple Legal. Basically, moral of the story: If you are concerned about the outcome of an event, try not to worry about it too much. Chances are it’ll work out well in the end.
