Could the average CS player take down an ISP? Not without the help of Minh Le, the CS team, Valve, and 245MB of space. A CS player under the nick "Mortin" made his personal webpage, normally capped at 5MB, a full-fledged mirror for Counter-Strike, says this article.
This truly is the Counter-Strike Play of the Year:
This truly is the Counter-Strike Play of the Year:
Remember kids, bandwidth is money.The student, whose name was not released pending charges, uploaded 245 megabytes of the latest version of "Counter-strike," FDLE officials said. The upload accounted for about 50 times the storage space his Web page was designed to handle.
Network Tallahassee's bandwidth was taken up by so many people trying to download the game, Merrick said, that clients - at least 7,000 - with personal Web pages were unable to maneuver over the Internet. Business domains were slowed but otherwise not affected, Merrick said.