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Just bought it. While I'm really happy to support DRM free content, I must say I am somewhat disappointed that you can only download it twice. "PLEASE NOTE tha

Just bought it. While I'm really happy to support DRM free content, I must say I am somewhat disappointed that you can only download it twice. "PLEASE NOTE that you can only stream the film twice AND you can download the film twice. Once you start a stream of the film, your stream will be active for 8 hours. Once you have exceeded your streaming and download limits, you will need to purchase the film again to stream or download it again. However once you have fully downloaded the film, you are of course free to watch it as many times as you like. "

icey 15y ago
How much bandwidth do you think $5 buys?
- bobds 15y ago
  I think it's on AWS. So whatever that buys you on Amazon. The 2 download limit made me worry about disconnecting or restarting the download. I also can't make my download manager open more than one connection, in case that locks me out of the content I just bought. I think it should be higher, but I understand that he can't give away too much bandwidth without cutting into his profits.
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  - Apfel 15y ago
    You really don't need to worry too much about disconnects. I disconnected twice while downloading and emailed the customer support address and they just replenished my downloads.
- wx77 15y ago
  For amazon cloudfront at the most expensive tier it buys close to 42 GB but then there would be no profit in sending the file 34 times (someone said it was a 1.2 GB file). It makes sense to me why he is only allowing a few downloads otherwise a few extreme users could take up all his money just by streaming.
  - masklinn 15y ago
    > (someone said it was a 1.2 GB file) I confirm that it is a ~1.2GB file (the file is precisely 1,199,666,893 bytes)
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- kingkilr 15y ago
  A little over 40GB on S3.
neutronicus 15y ago
It lives on his personal server, right? Seems reasonable for one guy paying for his own bandwidth.
- bahman2000 15y ago
  AWS as far as I can tell.
adelevie 15y ago
So if you bought it and exhausted your download limit, just torrent it. Or just buy and torrent it in the first place to save a little extra for Louis.
- adelevie 15y ago
  To whoever downvoted, I'd like to read a polite explanation why.
  - enneff 15y ago
    Because Louis CK explicitly asks that you download the video via his site and do not torrent it. By fetching this video via torrent you (generally) must seed it, therefore making it available to others who may or may not have paid for it. Two downloads and two streams seems reasonable to me.
    - adelevie 15y ago
      I think his use of the word "torrent" (which he admittedly does not fully understand) was a proxy for "watch this video without paying for it." I doubt he understands seeding--and even if he does, you can simply turn seeding off. BTW, to whoever downvoted enneff's reply: this seems senseless. I asked for a polite explanation, he gave one, and it's an interesting point of view (even though many of us may disagree with it).

icey 15y ago

How much bandwidth do you think $5 buys?

bobds 15y ago
I think it's on AWS. So whatever that buys you on Amazon. The 2 download limit made me worry about disconnecting or restarting the download. I also can't make my download manager open more than one connection, in case that locks me out of the content I just bought. I think it should be higher, but I understand that he can't give away too much bandwidth without cutting into his profits.
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- Apfel 15y ago
  You really don't need to worry too much about disconnects. I disconnected twice while downloading and emailed the customer support address and they just replenished my downloads.
wx77 15y ago
For amazon cloudfront at the most expensive tier it buys close to 42 GB but then there would be no profit in sending the file 34 times (someone said it was a 1.2 GB file). It makes sense to me why he is only allowing a few downloads otherwise a few extreme users could take up all his money just by streaming.
- masklinn 15y ago
  > (someone said it was a 1.2 GB file) I confirm that it is a ~1.2GB file (the file is precisely 1,199,666,893 bytes)
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kingkilr 15y ago
A little over 40GB on S3.

neutronicus 15y ago

It lives on his personal server, right? Seems reasonable for one guy paying for his own bandwidth.

bahman2000 15y ago
AWS as far as I can tell.

adelevie 15y ago

So if you bought it and exhausted your download limit, just torrent it. Or just buy and torrent it in the first place to save a little extra for Louis.

adelevie 15y ago
To whoever downvoted, I'd like to read a polite explanation why.
- enneff 15y ago
  Because Louis CK explicitly asks that you download the video via his site and do not torrent it. By fetching this video via torrent you (generally) must seed it, therefore making it available to others who may or may not have paid for it. Two downloads and two streams seems reasonable to me.
  - adelevie 15y ago
    I think his use of the word "torrent" (which he admittedly does not fully understand) was a proxy for "watch this video without paying for it." I doubt he understands seeding--and even if he does, you can simply turn seeding off. BTW, to whoever downvoted enneff's reply: this seems senseless. I asked for a polite explanation, he gave one, and it's an interesting point of view (even though many of us may disagree with it).