By "torrent", do you mean magnet:?xt=urn:btih:FD5ADD155E5FD01D6013B026A8766E56C2841E3D&dn=City%20of%20Heroes ? It's working fine, with 10 seeds and 20 peers by my count. The problem is either with your network or your machine.
Make sure your antivirus and firewall aren't blocking Tequila and your torrent app.
As seen in the post right above yours, they can and do.
1. Tequila downloads files from hosts funded by volunteers. And yes, those hosts are getting hammered by all the downloads.
2. There's nothing wrong with P2P sharing. Blizzard used BitTorrent for their downloaders for years.
3. Using a cyberlocker is actually less practical. The game is 4.5 GB and would have to be split into multiple chunks to fit onto most file hosting services. The free option on most of those services tends to be capped at 50 kbps download rate - so you're "only" looking at 26 hours of straight download, with whatever timeouts the hosting services imposed on you between downloading more than one file from their site (for some it can be an hour - AFTER your first download finishes - for others it can be several hours). Even mirrored across multiple services it would be a bloody pain to manage, and someone would have to periodically recheck and reupload the files.
This isn't how the original was distributed - which, incidentally, had nothing to do with why it was shut down.