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.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.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.And don't even get me started about the constant ethical dilemmas associated with sharing and who should control or own the data.To link all that threads into a broader topic, we could associate the torrent subculture to the Dionysian archetype which Nietzsche wrote about.