I think I'll avoid BitTorrent.
The torrents are fantastic
for legal use (downloading copyrighted material you don't own is of course, not legal). I used it recently to download the latest Xubuntu OS ISO. The torrent client was so much more sophisticated than any downloading I've ever used, it makes everything else seem like a fax machine.
It downloads from multiple sources simultaneously, so you never have an issue with a single 'pipe' getting clogged. And it grabs whatever piece is available that it doesn't already have, until it has everything. And you can actually schedule the DL, and tell it to limit the bandwidth (important for us, our ISP isn't super-high speed, so a big DL slows up other uses, and especially interferes with the VOIP phone call).
It's a shame that all these options are 'stream only'. I'd prefer to DL (at night so as to not interfere with our other uses) and be able to watch later, pause, rewind, FF w/o having to wait for the dang thing to sync up again. That's painful on a not-so-speedy connection.
In fact, if I were heavy into this, I might be inclined to pay the streaming fee, and then do the 'illegal' DL, just so I could watch off-line. Not legal by the letter of the law, but I'd have a clear conscious - though if I got 'caught', I doubt my explanation would hold water, w/o many $$$ in legal fees.
-ERD50
