[Saris]

>But stremio users are only active on a given Torrent while watching its content. Meaning that they contribute nothing back to the network. If everyone (or a large enough percentage of users) would act like this the whole (public) BitTorrent Network would no longer work.

How is that nothing? They would be seeding the whole time while watching.

[Ajedi32]

I think a big part of the problem is that consumer internet upload speeds are often way slower than download speeds. So they might download 1 GB of data but only have time to seed 50 MB before the stream is over.

[Saris]

True, although most TV shows are around 10-15Mbps, so even with a pretty slow upload they should be able to seed at least what they've downloaded over the time it takes to watch it.

[Shinolove]

depends on the content length tho, I can download 1 GB of data in 100 seconds but if I am watching it for 20 minutes (which is not unreasonable at all given that torrents for 20 minute TV shows are generally around 1gigs at 1080p) I have 1200 seconds to upload that 1000 MB of data back. That's about 7Mbit upload which is not crazy at all

[jmprspret]

I agree. This is more contribution than leechers who download the torrent then just never seed any of it at all.