At 1.3 gigs, I would imagine a lot of those "downloads" are "do overs".
Still, 3000 downloads is hardly a SURGE, don't you think? Actually, it's barely a ripple.
you dont do over torrents they dont get corrupted own download and you can resume them. Also, I just took a glance at some sites and on those alone its at 3000. One of the main torrents is in the tens of thousands of peers downloading right now and has been consistently since yesteday.