canopic jug writes:TorrentFreak has a short retrospective on two decades of the bitTorrent protocol, which was first launched July 2, 2001. At its peak, about one third of all Internet traffic was BitTorrent. Currently, many GNU/Linux distributions and various data sets (including for games) are distributed officially via BitTorrent due to it being an inexpensive and efficient means of transfer of large volumes of data.