There are actually several protocol updates in the works (and some fundamental work like pubsub has been finished) to enable torrents that can be upgraded, it d

There are actually several protocol updates in the works (and some fundamental work like pubsub has been finished) to enable torrents that can be upgraded, it doesn't require a radical paradigm-shift at all. A protocol that does what torrent does but better would be dat://, IPFS is terrible at being BitTorrent but better.