[jazzyjackson]

Good point re: investment not being made for p2p tech, maybe consumers never demanded it, or it could be that the ISPs are also the broadcasters who want to protect their copyrights

(thinking about it, it's not clear this had to be the case, the phone lines were made for symmetric communication but dial-up was subsumed by cable providers - we got higher speeds but only because it was in the broadcasters' interest to sell us media packages, they were never going to help us send files to each other)