[chaxor]

I suppose there could be many things happening on the internet that we are unaware of; however, torrents are very good and specifically tailored as a protocol for scientific data and ML.

It solves the link-rot issues that occur due to moving institutions, it allows huge storage for essentially free (ever tried to store 9 TB of training data or CERN data on Dropbox?), and it scales extremely beautifully.

It's really the absolute perfect solution for reproducible research in large data studies.