Download Day 2008

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Set a Guinness World Record

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Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours - it?s that easy. We're not asking you to swallow a sword or to balance 30 spoons on your face, although that would be kind of awesome.

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It is impossible for them to give a specific date as the software is still in beta stage, I am sure there will be a huge fanfare nearer the time.

One thing I doubt they have considered, with all the international time zones, what will the definition of day be? As this will have to be verified by Guinness, there should be a specific 24hr period encompassing all time zones, rather than just saying it will be midnight to midnight in a particular zone.

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hmm... does that mean if I go to the firefox site and click "download" all day, the download count will be up by the hundreds? (or thousands if I make a script to do it)

Don't think so. I think they are looking for unique IPs and if that's the case, then if you are behind a router, then downloading multiple times won't matter.

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The only limitations that I can see are lines in to the servers times the number of servers time the amount of time that they are counting for this record. And also speed of the servers with the turn around time as well as the down loaders Internet connections for the turn around time.

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but i have dynamic ip that changes every time i connect to alltel.E-V-D-O- hmmmmm i wonder if it would be legal if i were to put this program with some free security suites and programs and sell for like 5 bucks that i burned to a blank cd-r..... :hmm: :

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