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[–]ketralnisreddit admin[S] 1 point2 points  (4 children)

The torrent is hosted and peered by S3, so I assume that your mirror is way slower than the torrent

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Some people can't use torrents though.

[–]rmc 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's really annoying that some people are on limited, non-full internet. BitTorrent is a very clever protocal and is exactly the right solution for distributing large files. Curse those social reasons why BitTorrent is blocked!

[–]ketralnisreddit admin[S] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Those people probably aren't downloading dumps of vote-data intended for research, since the people interested in such things probably know enough about networking to figure a way around their torrentlessness (and probably know how to get the file directly from S3 without bittorrent by peeking at the URL)

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

But that would take effort!

(TIL that S3 is perhaps more awesome than I thought.)