If you don't remember, why speculate? Ek had been the CEO of µTorrent and they hired a person who had done research on Torrent technology at KTH RIT to help wi

If you don't remember, why speculate? Ek had been the CEO of µTorrent and they hired a person who had done research on Torrent technology at KTH RIT to help with the implementation. It was a proven technology that required relatively small adaptations. They moved away from this architecture after the entertainment industry got involved. Sure, it was a cost issue until this point, but it also turned into a telemetry issue afterwards.