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by zmitri 5681 days ago
This is cool, you could also use S3 to help you seed if you don't want to keep your computer on all the time. S3 allows you to use torrents by adding ?torrent to the end of your urls. The data transfer is treated the same as regular S3 data access.
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Using S3 torrents wouldn't help you seed, since you'd have to use the same tracker (original) as everyone else.
Couldn't you just add the tracker url from the s3 torrent to the torrent file you generate?
Sure, but you then need to get everyone else downloading the (original) torrent to download and use your new torrent. The new amazon torrent might split the file into differently sized chunks compared to the original. In short, you'd need to get all original downloads/uploaded to use your new torrent.