A while ago I submitted an idea to some bittorrent-client developers that would very much improve the world. The biggest problem currently facing bittorrent users is the lack of seeds for many torrents out there. These torrents are called 'dead' because of that. In reality they're not dead, they're just not being seeded anymore, there are no peers in the swarm seeding the data. This problem only exists because the client-software has chosen to (automatically) stop seeding the torrents in question, making it a short term medium. Many users have huge lists of torrents ready to be fed to the swarms, torrents that are doing nothing but sit there (on disk), disconnected from optional peers. This, I think, is ridiculously stupid, and caused by silly seeding conditions. It…