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Which is completely irrelevant to the discussion at hand.
You've raised –
Anna's Archive bearing the server-load ("slurp up their bandwidth", "the traffic costs will inflate dramatically")
Lawyers demanding a centralised takedown
Both of these are based on the idea of a client-server model. Torrents don't have that model at all. It's a peer-to-peer model as opposed to a client-server model
"the lack of a central server that could limit bandwidth"... "The BitTorrent protocol can be used to reduce the server and network impact of distributing large files. Rather than downloading a file from a single source server, the BitTorrent protocol allows users to join a "swarm" of hosts to upload and download from each other simultaneously"... "there is no single point of failure as in one way server-client transfers".... "publishers that value BitTorrent as a cheap alternative to a client-server approach".... "to increase availability and to reduce load on their own servers, especially when dealing with larger files"
Happy to explain this more if you're still confused.
Do you not understand how threads work?