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Couple of BEPs related to updating torrents:

https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0039.html https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0046.html

trere is the bittorrent v2 standard: https://blog.libtorrent.org/2020/09/bittorrent-v2/

but unfortunately most foss torrent clients do not support it, partly because at release libtorrent 2.0.x had poor io performance in some cases so torrent clients reverted to the 1.2.x branch

I think SciOp is doing something in that area, with a catalog site and webseeds. https://sciop.net/

A Torrent would probably suffocate under the small file distribution. I’m not sure how the romset torrents work but I thought they were versioned.

But torrent is probably the wrong tech. I’m sure there would be many players willing to host a few TB or more each, which could be fronted via something so it’s transparent to the user.

But a better option might be a subscription model, anything else will be slammed by crawlers.