BitTorrent is used to exchange illegal DVD rips and music files, and that’s bad. It’s also used to exchange copyrighted works that aren’t available on DVD, and that’s still illegal but not without some merit. And here’s a great example of that.
The footage from September 11th, 2001, has been kept off TV for years, but there is a torrent for ABC’s 9-11 footage (1.5 GB). It is not edited; instead, it is the entire news broadcast, uncut, for over four hours. I wish all of the networks and news channels would release their 9-11 footage on DVD. In the meantime, you can grab this.
There is at least one seeder I am aware of, so leech away.
While it’s not exactly what you’re asking for, there is one place where you can find extensive 9/11 footage if you’re willing to dig. Vanderbilt University’s Television News Archive has been recording the major network news broadcasts since 1968. They have many thousands of hours of video archived for scholarly reference. I toured the place when I still worked at Vanderbilt and saw them processing some of the 9/11 footage then (this was some time after the attack–it took quite a while to deal with all that footage). It’s awfully expensive to order videos of it, but it is available for study.
http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/index.pl?SID=20060320635437011&UID=&CID=&auth=&code=