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The Michael Jackson memorial service has been broadcast online, increasing fears that the huge increase in traffic could cause another web meltdown.

Due to appear later tonight, time in the United Kingdom, the service will be in high definition in many places, and could lead to a recurrence of the Internet, the overhead occurred when the news of the death of the singer started on June 25

Tickets for the live event was massive over-subscribed. Approximately 500 million people who tried to visit Michael Jackson funeral in the first hour and a half, while 1.6 million of pre-registered for a chance to receive one of 8750 pairs.

A statement issued by representatives of the Jackson family has said that more resources were added to the site to meet demand, but not available for a while and many people were left without tickets, and are likely to view online.

Bloggers like Ben Parr of Mashable suggests that the memory of Michael Jackson might be a great test for the entire infrastructure of the web. ”

“This event is almost certain to break records for the biggest ever live and be one of the biggest events around the world media in history. The Web is able to handle it?” He said in a post.

As the news of Jackson’s death began to spread last month, the Internet appears to be strained. Google has said that the volume of search queries have the air of a denial of service attack, and many visitors to its news pages were received with the message: “Sorry, but your query looks like automation applications with virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can not process your request at this time. ”

Twitter users have access to a limited number of services the company to address the reduction of traffic. The number of tweets per minute increased to 5,000 in its heyday.

More from Yahoo, for its part, Jackson has led to the deaths of a number of new internal records, including most of the visitors to its news pages never to 16.4 million.

“Michael Jackson’s death was an important event. And unlike the 1970s, we all have a great tool that brings the world together – informed and connected – on the” remember when “moments,” said Nicki Dugan, Yahoo Publisher blog post on the blog Yodel Anecdotal.

The funeral will be held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, 10 pm Pacific Standard Time (6 pm British summer time). Most of the mainstream media are intended to show the event in its entirety. Sky and Five will be broadcasting the event live in the United Kingdom, while Fox, CNN, ABC and CBS are planning to live in the United States. Websites of video service, including Hulu, MySpace and Facebook are also planning programs.