On Mon, 11 Oct 2021 at 21:05, Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com> wrote:

I think it would be absolutely *stunning* for content providers
to turn the model on its head; use a bittorrent like model for
caching and serving content out of subscribers homes at
recalcitrant ISPs, so that data doesn't come from outside,
it comes out of the mesh within the eyeball network, with
no clear place for the ISP to stick a $$$ bill to.

Ignoring for the moment that P2P is inherently difficult to stream with (you're usually downloading chunks in parallel, and with devices like Smart TVs etc you don't really have the storage to do so anyway) there's also the problem that things like BitTorrent don't know network topology and therefore only really increases the cross-sectional bandwidth required.

Not to mention that it has been tried before, and didn't work then either.