Explain what it means then, without using any blockchain buzzwords (decentralized, web of trust, proof of work etc.)

"Gee, wouldn't it be nice if leechers could pay seeders instead of just leeching? There's a lot of hype right now about a tech that's supposedly good for building various kinds of Magic Internet Money; maybe we could integrate some form of that."

("decentralized" at least actually means something here - BitTorrent is already a decentralized protocol, there are no central BitTorrent servers that coordinate things. So anything that would be properly integrated with BitTorrent would have to be decentralized somehow.)