As pbnjay says, torrents alone can't be used because they target static content. I'm currently building an OSS alternative of btsync at https://github.com/rakoo

As pbnjay says, torrents alone can't be used because they target static content. I'm currently building an OSS alternative of btsync at https://github.com/rakoo/rakoshare https://github.com/rakoo/rakoshare. Basically you can use a torrent to transfer content, but you need to transfer the new torrent itself some other way; I use bittorrent's extension capabilities to do that.