by javanix on 11/29/10, 2:28 PM
The only thing I would ever use this for would be legal files shared with friends - I'm not sure how often Amazon ripples their IP addresses, but I'm sure the RIAA/MPAA would have a field day with an IP address linked to a billing account in the US.
by wccrawford on 11/29/10, 1:54 PM
Ouch. What would that cost for the bandwidth?
I looked into using cloud instances for file sharing (legal files, of course) and decided it would cost too much for what it was worth to me.
by mooism2 on 11/29/10, 2:04 PM
I'm surprised home routers don't have bittorrent clients built in. I expect most people leave them on 24/7 as it is.
by jcsalterego on 11/29/10, 3:22 PM
That's cool.
I did the same thing for Minecraft SMP (passing 512M instead of 1024M for memory usage).
by zmitri on 11/29/10, 3:41 PM
This is cool, you could also use S3 to help you seed if you don't want to keep your computer on all the time. S3 allows you to use torrents by adding ?torrent to the end of your urls. The data transfer is treated the same as regular S3 data access.
by getsat on 11/29/10, 5:05 PM
by icco on 11/29/10, 7:05 PM
This is a cool idea, but if I used it with the amount of data I use at home, I would be spending upwards of $500 a month.
by pibefision on 11/29/10, 2:15 PM
recently discovered aria2c, it's an excellent client for bittorrents files, would be run great on any EC2 instance.
by hippich on 11/29/10, 3:50 PM
IMHO, Exactly this kind of abuse is something will lead to closing evaluation period provider by amazon.