Except there's still so much content you don't find on commercial platforms, and even when you find it it may disappear from one day to the next due to evolving

Except there's still so much content you don't find on commercial platforms, and even when you find it it may disappear from one day to the next due to evolving contracts between shareholders and the platform. Also, streaming from a big multinational corporation works fine in well-connected areas but is a terrible experience on the country side and in the Global South. Where your connection to AWS/Google/Netlify is measured in Kb/s, torrents are a blessing because it spreads the load across several routes (including more local ones, because cloud providers are really slow from eg. Africa) and you can leave the downloads running all night. Torrents and other content-addressed systems are by far technically superior to centralized location-addressed systems like HTTP.