Yes, it did.  The Bittorrent whitepaper was a breakthrough in p2p not matched until Satoshi came along.

All the cruft of Gnutella (anti-leech arms race kludges, supernodes, etc) was swept away by Bram's brilliantly elegant tit-for-tat algorithm.

Classic example of the world beating a path to the better mousetrap's door.  Everybody still uses it, 20 years later.

Please ignore the MSM, so it will go away ASAP.  Now excuse me, I need to watch The Kelly File!