Funny. iirc some of the big tech (I think it was Google?) use torrents internally to deploy very large images to servers. Piracy is not the only use case!
It was used for years to distribute World of Warcraft updates. No idea if it still is.
Ironically that is Facebook that used torrent for binary distribution. (no idea if it's still the case, that was a very long time ago).
It's not just food very large images. It's also useful for moderately large images/packages being deployed to many many many servers.
Used it to download linux distro images back when the size of an install CD was huge.
Good times.
Now that I think about it I wonder why we don't see it being used to distribute packages for linux distros. Seems more flexible than the current mirror system.
More overhead, torrents being blocked or disliked because of their association with piracy, difficulty to distribute updated versions of files (package indexes)?
Game consoles use torrent protocols to distribute game updates.
Modern AAA games have hundreds of GBs worth of content, and a game is a single unified package. Linux distros have tens of thousands of packages, many of them in less than a MB in size, with different update frequencies and different users. You would need to generate massive amounts of torrents.