Comment 9 for bug 339772

I really don't feel comfortable with the idea that application/x-bittorrent
files should react in a magical way.

If we did this, the same result should happen whether you right-clicked on a
link and saved it, clicked on the link and viewed it, or referred to it via an
<img>, <object>, or background:url() syntax. This would leave no way to get at
the real end of the link, which would arguably make us non-HTTP compliant, IMHO.
It also seems fundamentally wrong to me. (It tickles my quality assurance "here
be bugs" sense.)

Couldn't we implement moz-torrent: (or some other scheme in coordination with
Bram Cohen) and simply have application/x-bittorrent offer to download the file
"using the BitTorrent protocol"? (Just like looking at an application/
octet-steam file should offer to "open the file in Mozilla" if it is really a
text/html or image/png image.)

Hmm. I need to think more about this.