In Thursday’s New York Times, Amy Harmon exposes the dirty secret of the bleeding edge of file-sharing: we’ve moved on past MP3 songs to full-length movies, amateur porn video, and episodes of “Jackass.” Cat’s out of the bag now.

The article focuses mostly on users of Streamcast Network’s Morpheus, and it quotes Kelly Truelove (who wrote about Morpheus for O’Reilly Network last year) confirming that larger files are being swapped — a sign that video is becoming a bigger part of the traffic.

Harmon has interviewed some great subjects, typical users like the guy in Toronto who had never seen MTV’s “Jackass,” but after downloading and watching one episode, grabbed all 24 episodes over the past three years. Then there’s the 49-year-old car dealer from Houston who downloaded “Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring” so he could see the half hour he missed when he “had to get more Jujubes and Gummi Worms.”

Of course no file-sharing piece would be complete without toxic quotes from either Hillary Rosen or Jack Valenti. Since we’re talking video here, Valenti, the president of the Motion Picture Assocaition of America, chimes in rising to the rhetoric of the day. “We’re fighting our own terrorist war,” he screeches. “The great moat that protects us, and it is only temporary, is lack of broadband access.”

I don’t know if anyone else minds Jack trivializing the acts of real-life terrorists by equating them with couch potatoes who download low-resolution versions of “The Simpsons,” but I think that, given the bumpy road broadband’s been on, Jack can hide behind that moat for some time to come.

Seen any good bootlegged video lately?