I have used alternatives for several days now, and frankly - They are horrible. A few have good download rates, but are sadly not universally used, others have occasional good downloads, but most times have a crawling speed, and others have completely unusable speeds (unless you pay up) or a file size limit (unless you pay up) or both. And in some cases you simply get "you have downloaded already, come back next day", or "too many users, come back later".
I really think Torrents is becoming a viable option very fast, because the alternatives are really not covering the usage needed for the (often) large size of files here. With low speed the download can be measured in hours, or with really large files and a bad file provider even days. It not only hurts the downloaders, but also the creators. If nobody wants to download your new creation, because it simply takes too long then... Well good luck with your creation. A creation that only can be seen by a very few an very, very patient number of downloaders.
Nopy is really, really missed here. That's for sure.