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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I know that Amazon provides torrent downloads for files in S3, so if
we uploaded our files to S3, we could also provide them via torrent.
I am not certain this gets us anything though.

Adam Wolf

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 10:50 AM, Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>I have no issue with that but there is no way for KiCad to control what is uploaded to a torrent so I really don't want the project to be responsible for it
>
> The torrent could be autogenerated by the download server when the
> files are transferred over, the download server would act as the
> initial seed server. The torrent once created could be shared on the
> website and then thats it. The contents of the torrent cannot change
> without it being a completely different hash and thus invalid for the
> torrent.
>
>>Does our website not have enough bandwidth for downloading KiCad packages?
>
> Actually simultaneous downloads from multiple users do seem to slow it
> down quite a tad bit. It's not like the files are hosted on a CDN like
> other projects may have or even github.
>
> The theory with torrents is the download server would consume the
> same bandwidth during initial seed but then others could then "donate"
> their bandwidth afterwards to continue sharing (the initial seed is
> still there too).
>
>
> Not advocating for this but just throwing my two cents in
>
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