> It has not been reasonable to ignore such users for the last five years or so.

You're taking me the wrong way. I wrote that because I didn't feel like writing paragraphs going into explicit detail over the pros and cons of seed avoiders and how one might handle them, etc. It wasn't the point of the conversation I was trying to make, informing about the general design. BitTorrent works without you hosting the file, so does IPFS, that's the point. Nothing more, nothing less.

Which, I should have known better from HN, but /shrug. I guess in the future I need to be more explicit when I ignore a topic.