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Just bought it. While I'm really happy to support DRM free content, I must say I am somewhat disappointed that you can only download it twice.

"PLEASE NOTE that you can only stream the film twice AND you can download the film twice. Once you start a stream of the film, your stream will be active for 8 hours. Once you have exceeded your streaming and download limits, you will need to purchase the film again to stream or download it again. However once you have fully downloaded the film, you are of course free to watch it as many times as you like. "

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It lives on his personal server, right? Seems reasonable for one guy paying for his own bandwidth.

AWS as far as I can tell.

So if you bought it and exhausted your download limit, just torrent it. Or just buy and torrent it in the first place to save a little extra for Louis.

To whoever downvoted, I'd like to read a polite explanation why.

Because Louis CK explicitly asks that you download the video via his site and do not torrent it.

By fetching this video via torrent you (generally) must seed it, therefore making it available to others who may or may not have paid for it.

Two downloads and two streams seems reasonable to me.

I think his use of the word "torrent" (which he admittedly does not fully understand) was a proxy for "watch this video without paying for it." I doubt he understands seeding--and even if he does, you can simply turn seeding off.

BTW, to whoever downvoted enneff's reply: this seems senseless. I asked for a polite explanation, he gave one, and it's an interesting point of view (even though many of us may disagree with it).

How much bandwidth do you think $5 buys?

I think it's on AWS. So whatever that buys you on Amazon.

The 2 download limit made me worry about disconnecting or restarting the download. I also can't make my download manager open more than one connection, in case that locks me out of the content I just bought. I think it should be higher, but I understand that he can't give away too much bandwidth without cutting into his profits.

You really don't need to worry too much about disconnects.

I disconnected twice while downloading and emailed the customer support address and they just replenished my downloads.

For amazon cloudfront at the most expensive tier it buys close to 42 GB but then there would be no profit in sending the file 34 times (someone said it was a 1.2 GB file).

It makes sense to me why he is only allowing a few downloads otherwise a few extreme users could take up all his money just by streaming.

> (someone said it was a 1.2 GB file)

I confirm that it is a ~1.2GB file (the file is precisely 1,199,666,893 bytes)

A little over 40GB on S3.

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