A copy of the .ZIP files on this website have been made available through BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol:
.torrent file
description page
The files are released through Mininova’s content distribution program, which means they should download fairly quickly and remain available for a long time.
This mirror is from 2010-01-29 and may be added to in the future as new or updated files are released through naturalearthdata.com
Thanks for making all this great data available!
Your welcome, Mike! I’ll follow up with you as updated files are pushed out.