Depends on what torrent is about. For me, it is about watching shows that you can't officially watch where I live yet. Once I week, I hit up a site and, click a magnet link, and a couple of minutes later I can watch my favorite show. (The cost of the VPN is incidentally about the same as a streaming subscription. I think for this reason it is tolerated by the powers that be.)

I don't expect torrents to be available for a long time. Only very few people keep the torrent entry in their client alive for long, even though I keep around all the files. This is as opposed to eMule and older systems, where you can download any file in the user's media folder.

>(The cost of the VPN is incidentally about the same as a streaming subscription. I think for this reason it is tolerated by the powers that be.)

I really don't follow you there

I believe the previous commenter meant that sequential downloads are orthogonal to the design of Bit Torrent.

Superseeding (and whatever you would call it from the client point of view) allows for peer-to-peer broadcasting.

Why? It doesn't need to prevent concurrent uploading.