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Re:How To Use Amazon EC2 for Bittorrent by PStamatiou on Sunday January 18, 2009 @02:50AM (#439182)
This is too much work for keeping your ratio all nice and swell. Start using newsgroups. You pay a bit and get insanely fast downloads (maxes out my fiber line around 9-10MB/sec).

http://paulstamatiou.com/2008/02/12/how-to-download-with-new...

Re:How To Use Amazon EC2 for Bittorrent by marvin on Sunday January 18, 2009 @11:12AM (#439415)
Where is the best Usenet index these days? Newzbin doesn't accept new memberships and the other services I found half a year ago were terribly sketchy in their coverage. I just concluded that Usenet wasn't an option for me any longer.