Its not an idiotic thread at all. Some people havent gone the money to be throwing away on games, especially when they are so easily downloaded these days.
No blam that would be ripping of the CD.
Its becoming clear who are the new breed of retards on this forum.
Splinter here is a thread with a quite substantial list of torrent sites( Some may be broken)
http://www.lomcn.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=30629 and afaik with torrents there is not an awful lot you can do to speed it up your side its about how many seeds there are. althought i have noticed a difference in torrent clients i used to use bitlord/bitcomet before but i downloaded morpheus which now supports torrents and i think its much better.