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It's not. CDNs have proven better for use cases that aren't piracy.

BT, as a community, is actually being challenged by cheap streaming services, like Netflix, Spotify, Youtube, Steam, etc. They are so cheap and convenient that even simple torrenting feels very slow and cumbersome.

BitTorrent is a terrible file distribution mechanism. I can't think of a single instance where I have had better performance downloading a torrent than a simple FTP/HTTP transfer or video stream from a web server or CDN.

Resilio Sync for Business worked way better for us than Dropbox and OneDrive with their CDN.

Were your use cases intra- or inter-organizational?