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by gingerjoos 4650 days ago
Relevent FAQ from Amazon S3 FAQ page : http://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/#What_is_the_BitTorrent_TM_pro...
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untog 4650 days ago
Wow, that's amazing. I had no idea Amazon offered that.

I also have no idea when I'll ever use it, but still. Damn cool.

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toomuchtodo 4650 days ago
Not only can S3 serve the file as a torrent, if you provide it as a torrent link and have disabled read access to the file, S3 will still serve as the tracker as long as other peers in the swarm have a full copy of the file to serve.
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jonaldomo 4650 days ago
Please upvote this to get it to the top.
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