I’ve been talking about bit torrent for a while now. It’s replaced ftp and http downloads for me in most contexts these days, but I’ve had a hard time convincing folks to actually try it out. Last night I conducted a little experiment the results of which should help convince folks they should be using torrents. Epic released the demo of Unreal Tournament 2004 yesterday and half the internet was trying to score a copy. I logged into my gamespy account and got myself in line in the fileplanet que to download the demo. Meanwhile I fired up Azureus and got it going from a torrent on filerush . Long story short, I had the demo on my hard drive and ready to install 15 minutes before my turn had come up in the que at fileplanet. If that’s not enough to convince folks to give torrents a try I don’t know what is.