Is there a reason VLC doesn't offer a Bittorrent download option, by the way? As far as I know VLC's audience is pretty technologically-inclined, so they would understand what a magnet link is, and you'd be able to just switch off the archive-download option for a while in cases like this. (As a bonus, if you embed a magnet link in your page, you're implicitly embedding a SHA-verification of the resulting torrent file.)