This report aims to take an objective look at the extent of the illegal use of BitTorrent, in order to facilitate increased awareness of the usage of BitTorrent today. While there are many legitimate uses for BitTorrent, it has been used regularly to download and distributed copyright infringing material, such as movies, music and software. BitTorrent uses a distributed network, where a file is downloaded from other peers on the network, hence the term peer to peer (P2P).
Įxecutive Summary BitTorrent is a useful and technically advanced protocol for sharing files over a network without posing a large impact on a single server or point of contact.
