[alistproducer2]

This is been around in various forms for quite a few years. But it's never really caught on because the basic fact is it turns everyone into leeches. Also doesn't really make any sense because when you stream something you're downloading and anyways so you might as well be a good citizen download it, and then seed it, and keep the community decentralized and healthy.

[runeks]

Why do you say that? It’s perfectly possible to download a file sequentially while uploading parts of it. Although I guess the ending would be harder to find than the beginning... but if all they do is make the first half part more widely available, I don’t see the issue.

[sp332]

I think the issue is that it stops uploading when you're done watching the movie and close the tab. It would be less of an issue if it somehow continued seeding for a while afterward.