[gopalv]

In the days of 56kbps internet days in India, there was a BBS (run by a cabal of sorts) who would download a linux distro CD and mail you a disk.

The email would have a link to the original .torrent and if a part of a disk was somehow corrupted, you could download just that chunk via BitTorrent instead of redownloading the whole thing or waiting for a new disk out.

Independently sourced checksums fixes most of the trust issues and a block-by-block checksum like what torrents had would allow for repair as well.

[ivanmontillam]

It still baffles me how BitTorrent is not used more for legit use cases of unreliable Internet connections.

I remember installing Silkroad Online (the MMORPG) and noticing the installer used to be a clever BitTorrent client packaged with a single torrent of the game.

Server load balancing on its own.