Hehe in a popular P2P client from the '03-'05 period, we said the same thing. Turns out there are groups with large amounts of funding which will provide a fake seed count. Either just faking metadata making it seem there was a high seed count but bogus nodes which would refuse connections (which was actual behavior from clients with bad ISPs - which we saw valid cases in asia or east europe) or would actually stream data (and some of them were on good hosts seeding multi mbps of bad data)

What i'm saying is it becomes a numbers game and those fake seeders usually have deep pockets financed by the content creators themselves