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You're absolutely right, which is why BitTorrent never managed to take off. Totally unviable, doesn't work at all, and definitely isn't the technology underpinning federated video services like PeerTube.
Edit: WTF? Why are you people denying the reality in front of your face? BitTorrent works and distributing video peer-to-peer is a solved problem. I do not understand this defeatist religious insistence that Video Must Cost Money.
At one point BitTorrent/P2P was responsible for something like 30-40% of all global internet traffic.
The thing is the protocol never really developed beyond some useful, but minor evolutionary updates.
You say "never really developed beyond" as if that isn't a synonym for "finished and working fine."