Before the era of “torrenting,” software and media were downloaded from a single server that hosts the entire file, and downloads were limited by bandwidth. Now, with the new BitTorrent protocol, each file is separated into thousands of files, which are synchronously downloaded to your computer and then reassembled (Gerwitz). In other words, instead of scanning all your food items at one cashier, you are simultaneously scanning a single food item at each cashier of the supermarket. This allows for the download of extremely large files, which just so happens to be the size of movies…