[[!comment format=mdwn username="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawnx8kHW66N3BqmkVpgtXDlYMvr8TJ5VvfY" nickname="Yaroslav" subject="allow multiple urls" date="2014-12-04T21:59:25Z" content=""" echoing https://github.com/datalad/datalad/issues/9 \"parallel download of a file from multiple URLs (and special remotes?)\" might be worth adding e.g. git config annex.downloader.torrent.allowmultiple True and then using downloader which could fetch from multiple originating URLs simultaneously. In respect to aria2 (which seems to not support ATM specification of the output filename) see https://github.com/tatsuhiro-t/aria2/issues/190 """]]