Bittorrent is designed to not depend on such central, always-on servers. Avoiding piece availability bottlenecks is one of its robustness features. If you subs

Bittorrent is designed to not depend on such central, always-on servers. Avoiding piece availability bottlenecks is one of its robustness features. If you substitute built-in robustness with servers then yes, of course it will still work. But you're weakening the decentralized nature of the protocol by doing so.