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...the fact of the matter is likely to be that the vast majority of the end users on the internet use virtually none of their upload capacity. I'm sure that they'd rather trade that capacity for lower costs.



Unfortunately, in the UK at least, almost all broadband users have a usage limit that includes uploads as well as downloads in the same limit. It doesn't make any sense of course, but that is the situation.

An uninformed broadband user in the UK would easily hit their monthly usage limit with their P2P uploads if they started using a system like this.

There are fortunately more sensible ISPs as well, my ISP has unlimited uploads and downloads outside of peak hours and unlimited uploads at all times. Unfortunately most ISPs in the UK are not like this.

Perhaps this is why this service is being launched in the US and not the UK ?
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