Is Bittorrent being over-used ?

Several weeks ago, in a P2P mailing-list, one proposed an improved version of HTTP protocol, with Bittorrent built in. Some others, however, argued that Bittorrent should not be used everywhere, and apparantly people should stop thinking of integrating Bittorrent to every protocol that they thought of. HTTP is light weight enough for Web/data transferring.

Bittorrent was an excellent and extremely useful tool for content distribution. True !. Another great thing about it is the open source nature, and incoporation of sharing incentives, as discussed in "Incentives build Bittorrent robustness" paper by its creator Bram Cohen. Nevertheless, it consumes an enormous amount of bandwidth and would only be efficient if many people decided to be seeds, in other words, free-riding/incooperatives still exists.

Bittorrent's success on file sharing and large-content distribution (software, linux-release...) seems to push all developers to integrate Bittorrent features to their products. Several months ago, some routers with Bittorrent built in were released. It was believed to keep participating in Bittorrent network even when users' computer was off. I don't know if it has ever taken off (yet), but just found out today that a company is about to launch a TV boxet with Bittorren built in !!! This box-set is supposed to join Bittorrent network and download movies/trailers and show it on your TV. (Long sigh ....)

I just personally find that it's going too fast (far ?).