I know we can’t do this with any copyrighted materials. But a lot of books, music, art, knowledge is in the creative commons. Is it possible to create one massive torrent that includes all that can be legally included and then have people only download what they actually want to enjoy?
That makes a great focal point for what I was saying actually ;)
It’s 220TB, so youll have incredibly few people who download the whole torrent. Most will open the torrent list and select a small number of items from it to download. The files selected the most will get seeded frequently, the ones that never get selected by anyone will have only the originator seeding it (if they continue to do so).
It’s functionally no different than if each individual file is a torrent… Except that the seeding info is going to be wonky on the single 220TB torrent because nobody is downloading it intact, only in pieces.
It’s also much easier to find a specific file if it is it’s own torrent vs. one of a billion files in a single mega torrent.
Just because you put it on an index in a torrent doesn’t mean the file still exists somewhere. That media can still vanish…
What would do what you’re suggesting this torrent would do (which a torrent cannot actually do) is a Yottabyte capable computer somewhere storing all those files… You’d need that to keep the seeding intact for the whole torrent…