An excellent idea.
It will be a vast superset of what we find on bittorrent:
In addition to the usual fare on bittorrent, it will contain, for example:
All academic journals.
All newspapers.
All newspaper ARCHIVES, which is one of the income sources that the struggling, major metropolitan newspapers are paywalling in order to prolong their existence.
In addition to Safelists, we will see Safeleaks, that, similarly will be a superset of its clearnet progenitor (like a Tyrannosaur to a Deinonychus) that will conatin:
All the personnel records of all governments and major corporations, including photos.
Ponder that last item, really follow the implications through. No-one will take such jobs anymore, certainly not if they have families.
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It may or it may not. It introduces additional steps in the process, and if you’ve learned anything from articles about ecommerce Web sites it should be that each additional second required to load a page causes a loss of (don’t remember now) % of viewership. Also to zip and unzip stuff.
There may be more people who will be accessing torrents (if the promised anonymity is delivered), but if that turns out to be true, why would one not simply watch online instead of download?
Yes, some torrent content consists of several files that are best consumed when downloaded together, but I would say 95% of it is videos.
The extra steps will, step-by-step, become automated. So, while in the initial implementation your objection would be valid, in the mature implementation it would become insignificant.