> Most of us download our OS via torrents only

I mean, I only do it to stick it to the people who claim torrents can only be used for piracy; I think most people prefer the simplicity of direct downloads though…

Docker images already need special handling since you download the layers separately and reassemble them. Going from that to full BitTorrent should be transparent to the users.

In fact, there already exist several implementations of it for Docker![0, 1, 2]

[0]: https://coreos.com/blog/torrent-pulls

[1]: https://d7y.io/en-us/

[2]: https://github.com/uber/kraken