That's cool.
I did the same thing for Minecraft SMP (passing 512M instead of 1024M for memory usage).
EC2 Micro Instance as a Remote Bittorrent Client
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#12The 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.
Use a prepaid credit card; use a payphone for the phone call confirmation.
sounds like a lot of work to just get around buying content :)
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#13This 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.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, with the free usage tier you get 30GB data transfer (15GB in + 15GB out) included but that would soon run out.
From what I see Data Transfer is $0.10 per GB in $0.15 out http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ Assume you seed 50% more than you use 1GB (10c in) + (15c * 1.5 seeding) + (15c download) = ~47.5 cents per GB ouch. However, a blue ray rip is something like 8.5GB * 47.5 cents = 4.04$ which is not that bad. Assuming you get the actual content that you want, don't end up in jail etc, it’s still cheaper than HD PPV let alone…
Agreed, it's hard to understand this making any financial sense. If you're looking to do substantial seeding there are low cost unlimited bandwidth vps' that specialize there. If you're simply looking for a delayed but fast torrent download there are services that essentially transfer torrents to files on their server for you to download. And if you simply want to download things fast & on demand, there is always nntp.
Imagine if someone failed to set a max seeding amount and forgot about their EC2 instance for a few days or weeks. It'd be easy to transfer hundreds or thousands of gigabytes (1TB out = $150)
AWS is one of the most expensive ways to buy bandwidth out there. To do worse you have to look at high end dedicated & managed colos and bad deals at big CDNs.
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#15IMHO, Exactly this kind of abuse is something will lead to closing evaluation period provider by amazon.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Use a prepaid credit card; use a payphone for the phone call confirmation.
sounds like a lot of work to just get around buying content :)
Most of the content that is worth pirating can't be brought at all. Many US tv shows are two or more years behind outside the US.
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#17IMHO, Exactly this kind of abuse is something will lead to closing evaluation period provider by amazon.
How does this constitute abuse?
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#19Ouch. 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.
If you want to share files, an EC2 instance is overkill. Instead you should use S3. It even comes with built in automatic free bittorrent to spread your load.
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#20This 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.
Using S3 torrents wouldn't help you seed, since you'd have to use the same tracker (original) as everyone else.