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 makes a lot of users angry or disappointed. So, instead of having those seeding conditions based on (maximum) ratio, or based on (maximum) seeding time, it is much smarter to seed when there are few or no seeds (left) in the swarm. Have the client detect that by scraping the tracker! For example, when a user would queue all his/her finished torrent-downloads, a client like µTorrent should only seed the ones for…