Once WebTorrent is ubiquitous among desktop and headless clients, the networks will become a lot stronger. Especially for applications like BitChute and for anyone who copies their approach. It solves a major problem with the cost of baseline hosting vs. hosting at scale.
The problem is that many people will want to run bittorrent over a VPN connection, while they'd like to run their normal browser data over their normal (low-latency) internet connection.
You're assuming torrents are intended for copyright infringement which is unfortunately a big part of its usage right now, however if torrents become as seamless as HTTP (like not requiring a separate client) I can see them becoming widely used for totally legitimate purposes.
Torrents can be a great, standardized way of delivering updates for example, and network administrators can easily deploy a platform-agnostic way to deliver & cache updates on their network by just deploying a torrent client somewhere and their fleet would automatically discover them (using local peer discovery) instead of having to deploy multiple proprietary, platform-specific solutions.
> You're assuming torrents are intended for copyright infringement
I think they're just assuming that you don't want everyone to know exactly what you're doing online at all times by exposing your IP to everyone and their brother that uploads a resource.
This. It's a privacy nightmare. It essentially broadcasts to arbitrary other internet users find out what resources you've accessed. That's… pretty dire.
More flexibility in proxy configuration will make this easier to overcome, and there are already some plugins for Firefox which allows specifying specific proxies for specific sites.
