There's enough precedent that software won't be permanently killed just because piracy and illegal content is one possible use-case (despite the fact that 'they

There's enough precedent that software won't be permanently killed just because piracy and illegal content is one possible use-case (despite the fact that 'they' try, try again). I think, partially, Tribler are attempting to find more legitimate uses for the software to guard against the perception (that I had / have) that Tribler is an anonymised bittorrent client (using tor-like node structure) rather than, as they're self describing, a bittorrent-compatible alternative to YouTube.