How are some torrents a bad thing exactly? Most Linux OS's are distributed only via torrent. Open Office has the option to be downloaded torrent. Sure, pirates use torrents for "bad things", but good things can be gotten with torrents, legally I might add, and it sure as hell is a lot faster than waiting on your distro of choice to be mailed to you or wait for more than 3-4 hours for a 2gb OS due to network bottleneck in a big city.