[jeroenhd]

Popcorn Time did this and it worked great. Starting a torrent wasn't instant, but once a buffer was built up, it streamed just fine.

Popcorn Time got taken down pretty hard because they became too popular too fast.

A commercial solution could have a seed server optimized for streaming the initial segments of video files to kickstart the stream, and let basic torrents deal with the rest of the stream.

[SXX]

Popcorn Time still works and used by everyone who cares. It's just not as hyped anymore.