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I know it's not good spirit, but mounting torrents into the filesystem has been done a few times already, there are many projects that do that already. Also, i

by rakoo 6y ago

I know it's not good spirit, but mounting torrents into the filesystem has been done a few times already, there are many projects that do that already. Also, it's not really advertised, but S3 can act as a torrent node: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/S3Torrent.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/S3Torrent.ht...

ShinTakuya 6y ago
Sounds like they've dropped support for newer regions, though. Which is a shame. Seems like a decent tool.
toomuchtodo 6y ago
The cool part is you can have S3 serve a torrent, and then disable access to the object with permissions once it reaches an adequate seed level. You’re no longer charged for outbound data, but S3 will continue to act as a tracker for the swarm.
- fiatjaf 6y ago
  Wow, that was very unexpected.
- MR4D 6y ago
  Just checked Amazon's S3 page linked to by the PP. Question - how do the following "Notes" that Amazon has on it's page affect that? "Amazon S3 does not support the BitTorrent protocol in AWS Regions launched after May 30, 2016." "You can only get a torrent file for objects that are less than 5 GBs in size."
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  - res0nat0r 6y ago
    Likely just can only seed/torrent via older s3 regions is all.
    - toomuchtodo 6y ago
      Blessed be thy us-east-1.
anacrolix 6y ago
FWIW the S3 BitTorrent support is very primitive and limited. It hasn't been updated since 2006 from what I can tell.
- rakoo 6y ago
  While you're here I have to thank you for your go torrent library, it's really nice ! I have never used S3's torrent capability, but at this point bittorrent is pretty much "done" -- there's not much to add to make the protocol better without breaking compatibility, which means there's not much support to maintain a working software. But I'm not sure about it, maybe they don't participate in the DHT or don't use PEX, so that could be something they can improve.

by rakoo 6y ago

ShinTakuya 6y ago

Sounds like they've dropped support for newer regions, though. Which is a shame. Seems like a decent tool.

toomuchtodo 6y ago

The cool part is you can have S3 serve a torrent, and then disable access to the object with permissions once it reaches an adequate seed level. You’re no longer charged for outbound data, but S3 will continue to act as a tracker for the swarm.

fiatjaf 6y ago
Wow, that was very unexpected.
MR4D 6y ago
Just checked Amazon's S3 page linked to by the PP. Question - how do the following "Notes" that Amazon has on it's page affect that? "Amazon S3 does not support the BitTorrent protocol in AWS Regions launched after May 30, 2016." "You can only get a torrent file for objects that are less than 5 GBs in size."
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- res0nat0r 6y ago
  Likely just can only seed/torrent via older s3 regions is all.
  - toomuchtodo 6y ago
    Blessed be thy us-east-1.

anacrolix 6y ago

FWIW the S3 BitTorrent support is very primitive and limited. It hasn't been updated since 2006 from what I can tell.

rakoo 6y ago
While you're here I have to thank you for your go torrent library, it's really nice ! I have never used S3's torrent capability, but at this point bittorrent is pretty much "done" -- there's not much to add to make the protocol better without breaking compatibility, which means there's not much support to maintain a working software. But I'm not sure about it, maybe they don't participate in the DHT or don't use PEX, so that could be something they can improve.