Comment 0 for bug 339772

Note: this is _not_ a duplicate of bug 203571.

There is strategic value to mozilla.org in building in support for the
BitTorrent protocol to Firefox and Mozilla, so that a user can click on links to
.torrent files and have the file downloaded seamlessly in the Download Manager.

1) We could set up trackers for new Firefox/Mozilla versions, and it would ease
the load on our download servers.

2) Content providers love BitTorrent because it saves them bandwidth. If we
support it natively, our users will get a much better download experience than
IE users hitting overloaded servers via HTTP for the latest hot download.

This view is held by a lot of people - see the dupes of bug 203571.

Unfortunately, a slightly over-excited initial comment and a rather confused
discussion in that bug led to it being WONTFIXED, and any bug which mentions
BitTorrent has been duped against it ever since, even if it has different ideas.

My suggestions is roughly what Henry James, BitTorrent developer, is thinking of
in bug 203571, comment 13, paragraph 5. Mozilla should handle files of type
application/x-bittorrent internally, just like application/octet-stream - except
that it would download the tracker file, and then download the referenced file
using the BitTorrent protocol instead of HTTP.