Second, P2P doesn’t work when you have a restrictive uplink. The carriers like Verizon who have symmetric services are touting “uplink” as the metric that matters. The only application that utilizes uplink is P2P. A single P2P user can saturate the uplink for their entire neighborhood. I don’t think that Comcast can change their uplink problem, however they can eliminate the carrier’s leverage by enabling P2P to work efficiently within their network.

This can be done by working with BitTorrent to override their routing from the nearest computer to a super BitTorrent node that has all the content and downloads to users requesting their content within Comcast. This would eliminate uploads completely and eliminate Comcast’s problem.

The question is, will users who download illicit content want to use BitTorrent, knowing that they are being monitored by Comcast.