this is what comes up in the launcher

Couldn't download https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/1.6.1-mcpatcher/1.6.1-mcpatcher.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'
java.lang.RuntimeException: Server responded with 403
at net.minecraft.launcher.updater.download.Downloadable.download(Downloadable.java:85)
at net.minecraft.launcher.updater.download.DownloadJob.popAndDownload(DownloadJob.java:102)
at net.minecraft.launcher.updater.download.DownloadJob.access$000(DownloadJob.java:10)
at net.minecraft.launcher.updater.download.DownloadJob$1.run(DownloadJob.java:84)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Gave up trying to download https://s3.amazonaws.com/Minecraft.Download/versions/1.6.1-mcpatcher/1.6.1-mcpatcher.jar for job 'Version & Libraries'
Job 'Version & Libraries' finished with 1 failure(s)!