On August 21, 2009, In Lesson X - Everything Else..., by Kevin Fox
BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol used for distributing large amounts of data. BitTorrent is one of the most common protocols for transferring large files, and by Ipoque[1] estimates it accounted for approximately 27-55% of all Internet traffic depending on geographical location as of February 2009.[2]