[Joona]

Definitely looks like it to me. Took me a good month to back up my (video) files with CrashPlan, as it was using some 10% of my upload.

I think it would be a good selling point for a service like this to allow higher upload speeds.

[BillyParadise]

A good upsell, yes. But initial seeding to "affordably priced" online services at full data rate can never be economically viable to the provider. Bandwidth is cheap(er) these days, but routers which can handle big bandwidth are still big bucks.

Hold on, this is hacker news. VCs, this is a great idea!

No, no of course it's not. Initial seeding is a competitive moat for the first mover. Moving a few hundred gigs to a new backup company just to save a few bucks? I don't think I could be bothered, because I KNOW how long it will take.