Okay, so, for whatever reason I'm going to assume it was my torrent client. I've been using BitComet for years now without any problems, had the most update version, had even downloaded all the file from the client before any issues came up. In the end, I decided to install the official bittorrent client to see if it was indeed a client issue. Using bittorrent I was able to see the seeders just fine and had no problems downloading the torrent file.
What a very strange situation! Thank you all for your time.