an example of the usefulness of bittorrent for entirely legal
purposes  I frequently find myself in an unpopular position in
the entertainment industry: I believe in network neutrality, I
don't believe that piracy is the end of the world as we know it
(I particularly don't believe that a download or file shared
automatically equals a lost sale*) and I don't believe in
crippling the Internet to protect a business model that
desperately needs to change.    Screen Shot 2012-05-13 at
10.39.50 AM Screen Shot 2012-05-13 at 10.39.56 AM  So yesterday,
I decided that I'd download Ubuntu and put it in a Virtualbox on
my iMac, just to see how the distro is doing these days. As you
can see from the images above, if I'd downloaded the iso
straight from their server, it was going to take the better part
of an hour, so I decided to grab the torrent instead. Turns out
it was a good choice, because it was finished in about six
minutes.  I was so happy with the speed and performance, I
seeded it until I got to a ratio of 3.0,