Not too long ago, I wrote an article about the Nine Inch Nails Viral ARG Sites. As most people know by now, part of the whole game was that MP3 files from the new album were leaked and then spread over the web. I thought I would be nice and host one of the files on my site as well. Well, no good deed goes unpunished…
A very unkind person (I will refrain from using any other kind of language for the time being) decided to play a very mean trick on Some Random Dude. This person (for the sake of anonymity, let’s just call him 59.46.25.22) decided to request the MP3 file many, many times a minute. My hosting package offers 3GB of bandwidth a month – so far for this month, this site has used over 19GB of bandwidth… This could potentially cost thousands of dollars in over-use fees.
I have my thoughts about how and why this happened as well as from whom. I am trying to settle this with my hosting provider as we speak. Until everything is smoothed up, I will reserve judgment. However, this will not be the end of the story, I assure you of that.
UPDATE: – All is cool. I just got off the phone with the hosting provider and it is not a problem. Crisis mode is over.
