In my experience this is very rare, but that's my plan going forward. I can't guarantee that seed will stay up if I'm not paying attention to it though, so in

In my experience this is very rare, but that's my plan going forward. I can't guarantee that seed will stay up if I'm not paying attention to it though, so in practice it still means emailing the corresponding author. And actual transfer may still require sending hard drives through the mail. But publishing a torrent at least indicates willingness and preparation to share data, which is worth something.