Wired published an article called The BitTorrent Effect , summarizing it as: Movie studios hate it. File-swappers love it. Bram Cohen’s blazing-fast P2P software has turned the Internet into a universal TiVo.

BitTorrent is the latest downloading tool that increases download speeds – and thus the size of file that is practical to download – substantially.

Read the Wired article

Read the MPAA press release about BitTorrent server operator lawsuits