You Didn’t Get This From Me: Culture, Community & Cooperation on Bittorrent
Belinda Milne
In these days of accessible broadband Internet and rapid file-sharing, BitTorrent, has become the highest-profile peer-to-peer application on the Internet (Thompson. 2005). Recent figures suggest there may be more than 50 million users on BitTorrent each day (Jumpwire Media, 2010). With spread of community-based and Web 2.0 technologies anyone, from university students to bank managers, can download the latest videos, music, games and software with only a limited knowledge of the Internet.
