On Sat, 7 Jul 2012, Doug Jones wrote:
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I used the trick mentioned earlier in this thread. I trimmed the ?torrent
off of the end of the URL and started downloading the entire file through
Firefox. After a few megabytes I paused the download, copied the partial
file into the download folder used by my bittorrent client, and told it to
torrent that file. It contacted the tracker at amazon, which is indeed
working, and the tracker found one peer (you), and sent you those megabytes.
So the amazon tracker is working. And the file is indeed present on the
amazon server. But the amazon tracker isn't using the amazon server as a
seeder!
So something is still wrong.
I now managed to download the zip files and seeding them now (for
depedia).
Il will seed others also, in the hope, that the torrent network comes
back to live.
Off-topic soon, how-to:
I used azureus/vuze.
First downloaded the depedia*.7z files (as described earlier, without
.torrent).
Copied them into my torrent download folder.
Asked vuze to download the torrent 'depedia*.7z.torrent' from the
http://dev.thewikireader.com/language-packs/
page.
Got warning to continue/restart download, acknowledged that.
Started to seed then...
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Just wondering:
I was downloading the files from web with approx. 600kB.
This is much faster than any torrent network will provide and faster than
most other download sites.
Who - if ever - will have to pay for this download speed?
Does it make sense at all here, to use torrent network to distribute such
kind of data?
A.
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