Back in 2015 I made the argument that projects like vTorrent would effectively kill illegal torrent sites.
If crypto projects such as VTR and TPB can show a way to integrate some of the above and perhaps even more, into a wallet, then we will truly have something groundbreaking: P2P was first labelled as a disaster for digital rights owners. What if P2P crypto actually showed rights owners a way to use the medium to make their distribution far more efficient and in so doing switch free seeders into its partner network?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=932096.msg10231367#msg10231367Kodi seems to be doing a pretty good job of that, by allowing people to watch what they want using the bandwidth of the torrent sites. Torrent sites get all the costs but none of the users to click on their advertisers messages, so they just lose money now.
So Kodi is basically a cannibal. At some point there won't be any illegal content to steal.
vTorrent can help speed up the process. Why would people offer free stuff if others are making money selling access and giving royalties to the rights holders?
Once this model is established, we'll probably see hundreds of vTorrent copycats but VTR will be the original.
This is good on a number of fronts from getting investors some serious rewards, but also pushing rights holders down the path of global releases all done at the same time using pay for play torrents.
Coinmarketcap will probably have 20-30 torrent projects. vTorrent should be in the top 5 coins when that reality starts to take shape.
Private trackers will probably still survive as they are mostly done for friendship and community reasons. It's the masses who will switch how they consume torrent media.
