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Many gamers are using BitTorrent through Valve's Steam. By which I mean, that p2p file sharing is hardly nefarious. It's just a clever use of bandwidth.

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Is Steam actually using BitTorrent? I thought they were using something proprietary.

If they are not using BitTorrent then Sync would provide a new, plausible way to stop ISPs from blocking that specific protocol.

I think I got a little ahead of myself here, sorry. Bram Cohen (who is known for inventing BitTorrent) has worked shortly with Valve on Steam. I can't find a source quoting Steam as using BitTorrent though, so let's assume that no.

Well, apparently Blizzard does. :) Quoting http://www.wowpedia.org/Blizzard_Downloader

I remember that Ubuntu used to be available via torrents

Still is? http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/alternative-downloads

There's also http://debtorrent.alioth.debian.org/

Apparently CCP is planning to use bittorrent for the next generation launcher for EVE online:

http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/74573

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