Torrents are the best way to get anything more popular than an alpha release in Linux. These are just more excuses for the ISPs to provide services in a city in Indiana that is inferior to that received by rice farmers in Taiwan. I burn through 15GB per distro working with some distros, and I make sure I upload so that others have access to Opensource resources. That's just the operating system. Copyright infringers are just the scapegoats for ISPs to censor usage.
