Possibly also a path to greater decentralization. Relying on jurisdictional stuff isn't going to cut it forever (see the current pause on new uploads), but it's

Possibly also a path to greater decentralization. Relying on jurisdictional stuff isn't going to cut it forever (see the current pause on new uploads), but it's also hard to ask people to host data that'll get them sued without offering mitigations. Private torrent trackers do that through, well, being private, but I'm sure as hell not serving springer_catalogue_2020.tar.xz to the whole internet from an address linked to me in any way. Maybe an index of independently operated hidden services, each serving a (redundant) shard of the collection?