Working with one of the team providing the uniref dataset used here. Running any kind of torrent stuff in an university network setting is a central policy fight one just does not want to get into at all.

On the other hand outbound network traffic from an university is "free". So the benefit is absolutely minimal from a hosting perspective.

It was tried (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...) but it is gone the way of the dodo for the above reasons.