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Hey guys. I am having a BIG problem. My Minecraft was not working earlier (Like 1 year ago) so I downloaded another. I get this error: Bootstrap (v5)
Current time is Mar 2, 2014 12:08:12 PM
System.getProperty('os.name') == 'Windows 7'
System.getProperty('os.version') == '6.1'
System.getProperty('os.arch') == 'amd64'
System.getProperty('java.version') == '1.7.0_21'
System.getProperty('java.vendor') == 'Oracle Corporation'
System.getProperty('sun.arch.data.model') == '64'

Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws...ncher.pack.lzma
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Permission denied: connect
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws...ncher.pack.lzma (try 2/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Permission denied: connect
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws...ncher.pack.lzma (try 3/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Permission denied: connect
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws...ncher.pack.lzma (try 4/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Permission denied: connect
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws...ncher.pack.lzma (try 5/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Permission denied: connect
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws...ncher.pack.lzma (try 6/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Permission denied: connect
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws...ncher.pack.lzma (try 7/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Permission denied: connect
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws...ncher.pack.lzma (try 8/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Permission denied: connect
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws...ncher.pack.lzma (try 9/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Permission denied: connect
Downloading: https://s3.amazonaws...ncher.pack.lzma (try 10/10)
Exception: java.net.SocketException: Permission denied: connect
Unable to download remote file. Check your internet connection/proxy settings.
FATAL ERROR: net.minecraft.bootstrap.FatalBootstrapError: Unable to download while being forced
at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.execute(Bootstrap.java:95)
at net.minecraft.bootstrap.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:381)

Please fix the error and restart.

[Note: I chcked my .Minecraft folder, there was nothing in it. So I deleted it.]

Unable to download remote file. Check your internet connection/proxy settings. Your not able to download the files to run minecraft.

What drakka said. When this happend to me it was somehow my time and date of my pc. The time was set to april 3rd 1982 -_-.
I fixed that and then walla~!

How do I check my internet connection/proxy settings?

Its your firewall. Just search for it.