Essentially I was hoping to find some method of distributing a read-only repository across multiple servers. Bittorrent+SVN was just the quickest way I could think to write it. I looked for a bit but couldn't find anything close.
Some people claimed it would be a security risk, but if the hash checking was governed by the "tracker(s)" then I don't see why it would be any riskier than Bittorrent is already.
I don't see why it would be a bad idea though. There's a desire to serve a ton of community files all in a single package, harnessing the power of p2p. The downside to doing this with current methods is that old torrents don't die. And for anybody involved in serving to upgrade to new releases, everybody needs to download it all again meaning new releases always start horribly slow, which is exactly the time when you actually need MORE seeds.
I'm just trying to think outside the box, maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan
