The Internet Archive has released over 1MM items on bittorrent, 
including old PD books, movies, TV commercials, and librivox audio books.

http://blog.archive.org/2012/08/07/over-1000000-torrents-of-downloadable-books-music-and-movies/

Brewster Kahle says ...

"BitTorrent is the now fastest way to download items from the Archive, 
because the BitTorrent client downloads simultaneously from two 
different Archive servers located in two different datacenters, and from 
other Archive users who have downloaded these Torrents already. The 
distributed nature of BitTorrent swarms and their ability to retrieve 
Torrents from local peers may be of particular value to patrons with 
slower access to the Archive, for example those outside the United 
States or inside institutions with slow connections."

http://blog.bittorrent.com/2012/08/07/the-internet-archive-releases-over-1000000-files-of-freely-downloadable-music-movies-and-books-via-bittorrent/

BitTorrent says ...

"We’re committed to building a sustainable future that empowers creative 
content, effects the social good and ultimately persuades institutional 
change. We were happy to find that our interests align with those of the 
Internet Archive as we strive to protect and maintain society’s cultural 
artifacts – creating new ways to discover media and share it worldwide. 
Combined with the vast amount of content from the Internet Archive and 
the size and scope of the BitTorrent community, this is truly a worthy 
cause and we look forward to continuing to build new content solutions 
for the digital world."

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