IPFS vs WebTorrent: What the value of using IPFS instead of torrent files?

Not exactly, for torrents, there is essentially a separate swarm for every torrent. Two big torrents with only a few small files differing won’t share peers as IPFS does, for example.
Also, the way Bittorrent chunks content into blocks doesn’t work for all types of content (and isn’t designed for deduplication between torrents).

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