I know you can't connect to normal clients. My point is normal clients don't really matter.
"Which means that you do not have almost any sources of seeders"
All it takes for someone to seed a file is to open a web page. Think about it.
At any point if I wanted to promote a song via WebTorrent, I could build WebTorrent into an audio player and encourage my user base to click a checkbox and seed the track (toss in IndexedDB support for storing it offline and it's even better).
Complete serverless resharing with almost every benefit of BitTorrent to boot.
The only thing WebTorrent needs the existing BitTorrent install base for is the existing torrents, which don't matter as much as you might think they do (most torrents are pirated content anyways).
"Which means that you do not have almost any sources of seeders"
All it takes for someone to seed a file is to open a web page. Think about it.
At any point if I wanted to promote a song via WebTorrent, I could build WebTorrent into an audio player and encourage my user base to click a checkbox and seed the track (toss in IndexedDB support for storing it offline and it's even better).
Complete serverless resharing with almost every benefit of BitTorrent to boot.
The only thing WebTorrent needs the existing BitTorrent install base for is the existing torrents, which don't matter as much as you might think they do (most torrents are pirated content anyways).
So yes, WebRTC adoption does matter.