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I just create a torrent for the big file and email that torrent to the recipient...


Torrents don't necessarily work behind NAT, especially corporate NAT. (And they never will, because there's really no cost-effective way to provide an M:N equivalent of TURN[1], unless you throw the advantages of peer-to-peer transfer away entirely by creating a hub-and-spoke model.)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traversal_Using_Relays_around_N...




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