@MK2boogaloo There is no cloud - it's just other people's computers.

Depending on the popularity of the torrent, there can be millions of seeders or none.


Videos in proprietary formats or proprietary games are not forever, as eventually you won't be able to get the right proprietary player working or the right proprietary OS working for the games (in a reasonable amount of time or at all).

A video encoded in a free format will be playable pretty much forever of course.


Most quality movie torrents were dumped from physical media (as that's the only way to get a quality version of the video for most movies) and bittorrent just acts as a backup really.