Academic Torrents – Making 27TB of research data available
Perhaps I'm going off tangent, but the social dynamics associated with torrenting are pretty darn interesting.<p>On one hand, they seem to converge towards a consensus with most seeded and downloaded files and popularity as a trust factor. On the other, they also promote the dissemination of ideas the knowledge of which poses a threat to the status quo that is, the state towards which a society was coerced to.<p>On one hand, Torrents are about rejecting the Publisher and Big Media status but on the other they are about arriving to a democratic status about which films/books/... are the best or most useful.<p>And don't even get me started about the constant ethical dilemmas associated with sharing and who should control or own the data.<p>To link all that threads into a broader topic, we could associate the torrent subculture to the Dionysian archetype which Nietzsche wrote about.