I think this is mostly a consequence of how the clients work. When I download something with BitTorrent, it goes into a Downloads folder. Then I want to move and rename the files to fit into an organized collection, but then the client won&#x27;t be able to find it anymore. If my client were able to track files across moves and renames, I&#x27;d be much more willing to seed things permanently.<p>(It would also need to have good upstream-bandwidth management, use a number of TCP connections that&#x27;s less than O(n) in the number of torrents, and offer a few bulk operations like &quot;stop seeding torrents with more than N seeds&quot; and &quot;resume seeding torrents with fewer than N seeds&quot;.)