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Netflix down

The popular DVD rental site went down temporarily Tuesday afternoon.

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If you've been trying to log onto Netflix this afternoon and been having trouble, it wasn't just you.

At around 2:45 p.m. PDT or so, after 20 minutes of struggling to get onto the site, I tried again and found the message, "The Netflix Web site is temporarily down."

Netflix's Web site said the service was temporarily down Tuesday afternoon.

(Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET News.com)

The site said the service would be back up soon, most likely by 3 p.m. PDT. But we shall see.

Update: Netflix now says it will be at least 3:30 p.m. before its service is back up and running.

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