no one forces people to use something, a free market will punish (GM, Ford?) those who fail to meet its demand. The terrorist stuff is laughable though.

I feel like I remember that they once gave the "slow the internet down" excuse with the Vista beta?

But capacity has greatly expanded since then. Also bittorrent is only a protocol to transfer files, it wouldn't work well as the default protocol. Opera though does have an internal bittorrent client built right into the browser though, I think thats the best solution.

You can actually run it much longer by opening a command prompt in administrator mode and entering:

slmgr -rearm

This will extend the trail to 120 days.