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It's a different kind of convenience. It's akin to a Tivo where it's always just caching stuff you might to watch; or it's like a netflix queue without the post office hassle.

And by the way, "I heard from a friend" that it only takes 6 to 24 hours -- not 3-5 days-- to download a 4GB+ bit-for-bit DVD-R rip from certain BitTorrent sites.

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I was watching tech tv the other day and they said they're testing out ip blockers to stop this BS. Anybody have any information on this?

http://www.suprnova.org/
http://www.zenith-net.co.uk/
btlinks.no-ip
http://sakstream.tk/
http://www.torrentialbits.tk/
http://www.digitaldistractions.org/torrents.php
http://kung.servehttp.com:8080/live/index.asp
http://absolutesega.bounceme.net:79/
http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~crosses/eyesonly/
http://nx01.us/index.php?page=torrent
http://www.hawkie.org.uk/
http://www.sakstream.cjb.net/
http://www.downloadparadise.tk/
http://bittorrent.kicks-ass.net/dvdrtorrents/index .html

Interesting Discussions about the Legality & Anonymity of BitTorrent from the enfamed SuprNova site.

The movie taught us that "The Matrix" was a system of machines that enslave and delude the human race for their own ends. But what really is The Matrix in our world? I submit that the first level of The Matrix--as close as we'll get to it in our world--is not a society of machines enslaving people, but a collection of governments that enslave their citizens.

Just as machines attempt to control the thoughts and minds of humans trapped in the Matrix, some governments attempt to delude their citizens and control what they see and hear.

Ironically, the movie often showed computers as the technology that enabled the enslavement of humans. In our world, computers do just the opposite, and promise to be the technology that frees those who are enslaved.

If you're reading this in a country that does not allow "The Matrix" to be shown, have hope. There ARE SOLUTIONS.

'The Matrix' may have you. But free your bandwidth, and the rest will follow.

1) Large collections of small files: It would be really cool, to me, if small files out of a large catalog could be picked and chosen over a single bittorrent session. I'm envisioning this being used for things like debian package pools. Forget all these mirrors, let's find a way to let everyone who downloads an individual package share that with the next person who wants it. I don't know enough about other distributions, but anyone else who has to keep a large number of small packages up to date would benifit greatly from this.

2) Small, high-demand, and/or frequently changing sites. One only needs to look at http://www.suprnova.org/ and http://www.torrentse.cx/, two major torrent hosting sites, to see the problem. All too often small informational sites with no real massive payload get squashed by the slashdot effect. Surely the idea of using bittorrent's neccesarilly distributed nature to move around signed, up-to-date, small suites of related html & images is amoung the biggest potential opprotunities for small-time independant web publishers to survive high bandwidth demands?

For everything else, http://www.torrentse.cx, which has a comment system for each torrent file so people can post up their thoughts. Also they allow people to upload their own torrents. This site has the following sections: Misc, Movies, TV, Music, Porn, Books, Games, Software, Comics, and Anime.

Also, http://www.suprnova.org is good too, but has been having a lot of problems lately. They have: Games, Movies, TV Shows, Music, Apps, Misc, and DVD

http://www.bitetorrent.com has TV Shows, Movies, Music, Apps, Games, Comics, Anime and Misc. Allows people to upload their own torrent and has a tracker as well.

http://torrents.slash0.org/ also includes TV Shows, Movies, Games, and a Misc section.

The following are the best TV-only BitTorrent sites. http://www.marksailes.uklinux.net/bt/ http://www.tvtorrents.com

Anyways, those are the most popular BitTorrent places. And with me posting this now (and perhaps getting modded up =D), they should be even better and faster (if the website doesn't die from the load first).

I can't believe this mentions that torrents are hard to find. Here's how you find torrents.

Pull up google, type in something like this:
"what you're looking for" +bittorrent +download

You should have a list of sites that have links to that torrent. Or, you can read a site that keeps track of torrents and uses trackers. My personal favorite is torrentse.cx, but suprnova.org isn't too bad either. Sure these sites have illegitimate stuff on them, but there's also useful and legal files on there from time to time if that's a concern of yours. Problem is there's far too many people that just close the window after it's finished to "conserve bandwidth." Bittorrent doesn't work if you don't leave that damn window open, you can however set maximum upload rate from the command line, which I highly recommend using if you're on a connection that must be monitored.

Bittorrent is great, the more people using it at any given time makes it even better. Just make sure you read the documentation so you fully understand how it works and that it may take a while to start to download.