There is a point where you have to realise the internet is increasingly centralised at every level because powerful special interests want it to be that way. It's the same trend that effectively forbid people to send e-mail from home (they have to ask a big shot provider such as Gmail to do it for them, with MITM spying and advertisement), or the rise of ISP-level NAT, instead of giving everyone a public IPv6 address like they all deserve (including on mobile). Therefore everybody uses YouTube, and the ISP concludes nobody uses peer-to-peer distribution networks.Īnd so on and so forth. Peer-to-peer file sharing and distribution is slower than YouTube because nobody has any upload. The ISP sees nobody has servers at home so they conclude nobody needs upload. You don't want to host your server at home because you don't have upload. Still, setting that situation in stone was very limiting. I know about copper wires and how download and upload limit each other. Yes, traffic patterns at the time was heavily slanted towards downloads. (Why QWERTY is actually the best layout ever is left as an exercise to the occasional extremist libertarian) That's not how the market went because the market is often moronic.