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IanCal
4390 days ago
Useful tip, if you add "?torrent" to the end of the url for something stored in S3, you get a torrent. I think this only works for files < 5GB though.
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morisy
4390 days ago
That is awesome. Thank for the tip.
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mikeash
4390 days ago
Any idea of the reason for the size limit? That's a pretty weird limit to put on a torrent feature.
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mentat
4390 days ago
Reducing the incentive to host uncompressed DVDs / BluRay?
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toomuchtodo
4389 days ago
Its an S3 torrent endpoint architectural limitation.
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