Once people start cherry-picking individual files out of a combined torrent, and nobody’s downloading and seeding the other files they don’t want, those files are still dead anyway. They just don’t look dead until you try to actually download them and it turns out that none of the other people on the torrent have them.
And the way I see it, part of the appeal is that unpopular, unwanted choices will be dead, allowing us to focus on sharing and seeding the ones that actually matter to people. It’s not like the original source files are going away, for now anyway. This is just democratizing the distribution of them, in case someday they do. It’s not likely ever going to be a full archival, it’s a backstop to protect the ones that actually matter in case the source does go away.
Once people start cherry-picking individual files out of a combined torrent, and nobody’s downloading and seeding the other files they don’t want, those files are still dead anyway. They just don’t look dead until you try to actually download them and it turns out that none of the other people on the torrent have them.
And the way I see it, part of the appeal is that unpopular, unwanted choices will be dead, allowing us to focus on sharing and seeding the ones that actually matter to people. It’s not like the original source files are going away, for now anyway. This is just democratizing the distribution of them, in case someday they do. It’s not likely ever going to be a full archival, it’s a backstop to protect the ones that actually matter in case the source does go away.