I'm just guessing here, but I think that they protected their website contents themselves, not the uploader of the torrent. This would be the sane thing to do :

I'm just guessing here, but I think that they protected their website contents themselves, not the uploader of the torrent. This would be the sane thing to do : Even if the site gets hacked (...) your binaries still don't leak. Pay the fee, get the PGP key.