if the site mods take down a torrent because of a DCMA request, that's it. They've taken it down, no court will be sorting anything out for you, lol.
Just reupload a similar torrent and you'll be fine and the other users will certainly be greatful. If they take that down too it's because of another request. As a user you have no control over adhering to a takedown request, that's why you're hearing from GTRU, instead of from the DCMA guys asking YOU to takedown the torrent, you know?
I sometimes download popular siterips that are here (belamionline, bilatinmen etc.) without wanting to view them, because I know they'll be a near constant upload for me; coupled with great upload speeds, it's a nice ratio bump over time.
I suppose that's true, not all large torrents are siterips, and we all probably download plenty of single file torrents.
I guess even with non siterips, and even when you don't know what you're looking for, I just don't want to download a hundred torrents instead of one. The examples I was thinking of in my head were, first, IslandStuds. There was a huge torrent with all the files in a single folder, sorted by name, but it was deleted and now we have 15+ smaller torrents. Each with their own folder structure. Or how about a Tube-rip torrent (like chaturbate and other webcam sites)? Would you rather download a individual torrents or have the option to download them all at once?
I suppose in the end it depends on what kind of torrent it is? Collection vs random, and also if there are screens or not.
Also, if you seed all you randoms, the less common mega torrent partially downloaded isn't going to hurt you much for the lack of uploading.
I think large collections are the way to go, personally. Why download 15 torrents for a complete siterip when you could have all the files in one folder? It just doesn't make sense to me I guess.
If you don't want to download a huge torrent, just download parts of it. As for needing to look through a long list, you either know what you're looking for in a big siterip torrent or you don't; filenames won't help you choose which to download if you're unfamiliar, only the description/pictures. A well made torrent will have screenshots of each video, several videos to a picture, multiple pictures attached to the torrent as a preview.
This is just imo, of course 
I'm glad I happened upon this thread I'm currently working on a nice big torrent, getting all the videos joined and organized, etc….I should try and figure out if they're marked eh? But you know, when something gets taken off the site, others seem to pop back up replacing them from someone else.