Don't vilify the tool when it's the people that deserve the blame.
There are a lot of non piracy examples where bit torrent is used... a few:

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner@gmail.com> wrote:

It's not but people who use Torrent want to believe it's used for purposes OTHER than sharing copyrighted files.

-jmz

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:

how is downloading from a torrent better than just from a single location?

:-)~MIKE~(-: