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Old June 4th 07, 11:05 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Default VFR "picking his way thru" heavy cells with XM Radio weather

Peter R. wrote:
Here's the clip. I uploaded it to a free file hosting site and then
attempted to copy the direct download link, bypassing the annoying
wait-30-seconds-to-read-the-ads page.


Unfortunately, they're ahead of you. They're checking referrers (or a
similar technique) so the direct links won't work; this gets their ad
impressions up and keeps their bandwidth bill down. Somebody else tried
to post a direct link to files-upload.com here recently and it didn't
work - you need to find and post the link to the "wait for ads" page.

The link that didn't work was similar to the one you posted:

http://downloadX-Y.files-upload.com/...e-filename.ext

The link that does work will look something like this:

http://files-upload.com/files/NNNNNN/the-filename.ext

If the download doesn't work, let me know and I will upload it to a
different location:


Most every ISP gives you a few megs of personal Web space and that works
well for things like this. You could also post it to
alt.binaries.multimedia.aviation , but in these latter days, most people
won't know how to retrieve it from there.

Matt Roberds