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MSN Hotmail and Messenger used torrents to distribute binaries in 2006. It's not new nor novel.

And I'm sure someone did it before they did.

What binaries did MSN Hotmail have? It was the earlier web mail incarnation of outlook.com?

The Hotmail front-end ran as an ISAPI filter inside IIS.

Messenger had lots of standalone binaries for different functions: CS, SB, DP, etc.

BitTorrent is used in Dropbox, Twitter, MSN, etc to distribute binaries throughout the server platform, not to end users.