[CyberDildonics]

If torrent required payments when they first existed, probably not. At the moment, people do pay for servers to seed torrents so that they have a positive ratio on private trackers.

Torrents don't run on altruism and they never did. You might be looking at one side of the equation, but what if you could earn cryptocurrency by using extra bandwidth on servers by seeding torrents? What if you could pay for a VPN or private server that has plenty of extra bandwidth? What if you could find something rare much easier or get it much faster?